A solid-state drive (SSD) enhances the performance of every application running on it compared with a classic hard-disk drive (HDD). The reason is that an SSD functions with multiple interconnected flash memory units, so there're no physical parts to move. In comparison, an HDD works by using spinning disks and any reading or writing process causes the disks to spin, meaning the speed of an HDD is limited. Since the cost of the two kinds of drives are different as well, a lot of PCs and web servers are provided with an SSD for the OS and various applications, and an HDD for data storage, this way balancing cost and effectiveness. A website hosting service provider could also use a solid-state drive for caching purposes, which means that files which are accessed very often will be held on such a drive for achieving better loading speeds and for reducing the reading/writing processes on the hard drives.
SSD with Data Caching in Website Hosting
The cloud platform where we create website hosting accounts uses solely SSD drives, so your web applications and static Internet sites will open very fast. The SSDs are used for files, e-mails and databases, so regardless of whether you open a page or check for new email messages with webmail, the content will load right away. So as to ensure even greater speeds, we also use multiple dedicated SSDs which function only as cache. All of the content which generates a lot of traffic is copied on them automatically and is later on read from them and not from the main storage drives. Needless to say, that content is replaced dynamically for much better performance. What we achieve by doing this aside from the better speed is lowered overall load, thus lower chance of hardware failures, and longer lifespan of the main drives, that is one more level of protection for any information that you upload to your account.
SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Hosting
In case you purchase one of our semi-dedicated hosting plans, your websites will be stored on a cloud platform which employs only SSD drives for the storing of files, databases and e-mails. Along with the advanced ZFS file system that we use, this configuration guarantees very fast loading speed for any web app hosted on our end. To guarantee that the websites of one user don't affect the ones of another one, we also use numerous SSDs as cache - our system detects files which are accessed more frequently and clones them, so that they start loading from the caching drives. The content on the latter is refreshed dynamically and for that reason we can balance the load on all the drives, guarantee their extended life-span, decrease the risk of disk failures and, of course, provide you with a quick and reliable web hosting service.