A solid-state drive is considerably faster than any standard hard disk. This is because an HDD works by using rotating disks, which can rotate only so fast and the more info is read and written, the slower and hotter they get, whereas an SDD employs modules of flash memory, therefore there are no physically moving components. The access speeds for an SSD are drastically higher, which makes this sort of drives a recommended solution any time speed is needed. This is the reason why SSDs are frequently employed for the Operating System on a computer system and for saving data that is used regularly on servers. Numerous service providers also use a combination of both drives, so they save the data on hard drives, but they use several SSDs so as to cache the more frequently used data and for that reason, the data loads much quicker while the load on the HDDs is decreased since their disks need to spin less often in order to read and write.
SSD with Data Caching in Cloud Hosting
Our innovative cloud web hosting platform employs solely SSD drives, so in case you get any of our cloud hosting solutions, you'll take advantage of the speed that the drives provide. We no longer use hard disks, so your files, databases and emails will all open from high-speed SSDs. For even better performance, we use caching solid-state drives. A number of drives are used by our system for each file which is accessed more often and the data on these drives is dynamically refreshed to make sure that all traffic-intensive files load from them. That way, the load on the main drives is reduced, so we can provide excellent performance for all kinds of websites no matter how many times they're accessed and prevent a situation where some Internet sites are affected by too many reading and writing processes created by others. This setup also improves the lifespan of the main drives and reduces the risk of disk failure.
SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Hosting
In case you acquire one of our semi-dedicated hosting packages, your Internet sites will be stored on a cloud platform which employs only SSD drives for the storage of files, databases and emails. Along with the advanced ZFS file system that we use, this setup ensures very fast loading speed for each web app hosted on our end. To ensure that the websites of one user will not affect the ones of another one, we also use multiple SSDs as cache - our system identifies files that are accessed more frequently and clones them, so they start loading from the caching drives. The content on the latter is updated dynamically and as a result we can balance the load on all drives, warrant their extended life-span, minimize the risk of disk failures and, of course, provide a super fast and reliable website hosting service.