A solid-state drive is noticeably quicker than any normal hard-disk drive. The reason is that a hard-disk drive works by using spinning disks, that can rotate only so fast and the more data is read and written, the sluggish and hotter they get, whereas an SDD employs modules of flash memory, therefore there aren't any physically moving components. The access speeds for an SSD are much higher, which makes this kind of drives the right solution if speed is needed. That's why SSDs are frequently used for the Operating System on a home PC and for keeping data that is accessed frequently on hosting servers. Many providers also use a combination of the two drives, so they keep the data on hard drives, but they use a couple of solid-state drives to cache the more frequently used data and due to this fact, the data loads a lot faster while the load on the HDDs is reduced since their disks need to spin less frequently to read and write.
SSD with Data Caching in Website Hosting
We use exclusively SSDs on our cutting-edge cloud web hosting platform and we've eliminated all HDDs on our production servers so as to provide outstanding loading speeds for every part of our services - files, e-mails and databases. That way, any content you upload to your website hosting account will be reachable very quickly. To improve the overall performance of the Internet sites hosted on our end even more, we also use a number of SSDs which work only as cache - our system saves regularly accessed content on them and updates it without delay. We take advantage of such a setup to make sure that traffic-intensive sites don't influence the performance of the other Internet sites hosted on our platform and this way all other Internet sites can also take full advantage of the speed which the SSD drives provide. Furthermore, given that the load on the main drives is reduced, their lifespan will be longer, that's one more warranty for the security and integrity of your info.
SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Hosting
In case you need speed and fantastic performance for your Internet sites, our semi-dedicated hosting accounts will be a very suitable solution because they're made on a cloud platform that employs SSDs for each part of the service - e-mails, databases and files. This way, each Internet site that you host on our end will load fast. Just like other providers, we also use SSDs for caching, but since all storage drives are solid-state ones, you'll be able to take advantage of the top performance all the time and whatever the nature of your websites. The caching solid-state drives are used for load-balancing and all frequently accessed content is copied to them, which both reduces the load and provides the fantastic performance of all sites that load straight from the main drives. The lifespan of the latter will also be increased since there will be significantly less reading and writing processes on them.