A solid-state drive is substantially quicker than any standard hard-disk drive. This is because a hard-disk drive uses rotating disks, that can rotate only so fast and the more info is read and written, the slower and warmer they get, at the same time an SDD uses modules of flash memory, therefore there aren't any actually moving components. The access speeds for an SSD are substantially higher, which makes this kind of drives the right solution every time speed is needed. That's why SSDs are in many cases employed for the Operating System on a PC and for storing data that's used repeatedly on web servers. A large number of providers also use a combination of both drives, so they save the data on hard drives, but they use one or more SSDs to cache the more often used data and as a consequence, the data loads faster while the load on the HDDs is reduced as their disks have to spin less often in order to read and write.
SSD with Data Caching in Cloud Web Hosting
The cloud platform where we make cloud web hosting accounts uses exclusively SSD drives, so your web apps and static Internet sites will open very quickly. The SSDs are used for files, emails and databases, so regardless of whether you load a page or check for new emails using webmail, the content will load without delay. To ensure even higher speeds, we also use numerous dedicated SSDs that work only as cache. Any content that generates lots of traffic is copied on them automatically and is afterwards read from them and not from the primary storage drives. Needless to say, that content is replaced dynamically for better performance. What we achieve that way except for the better speed is reduced overall load, thus reduced probability of hardware failures, and longer lifespan of the main drives, that's one more level of security for any information that you upload to your account.
SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Hosting
If you acquire one of our semi-dedicated hosting plans, your Internet sites will be stored on a cloud platform which employs solely SSD drives for the storing of files, databases and email messages. Along with the leading-edge ZFS file system that we use, this setup ensures extremely fast loading speed for each web application hosted on our end. To ensure that the websites of one user don't affect the ones of another, we also use multiple SSDs as cache - our system identifies files that are accessed more frequently and duplicates them, so that they start loading from the caching drives. The content on the latter is updated dynamically and for that reason we can balance the load on all the drives, ensure their extended lifespan, lower the risk of disk failures and, of course, offer you a quick and reliable Internet hosting service.