A solid-state drive (SSD) boosts the performance of every application running on it when compared to a classic hard-disk drive (HDD). The reason is that a solid-state drive employs a variety of interconnected flash memory modules, so there're no physical parts to move. In contrast, a hard-disk drive contains spinning disks and each reading or writing process causes the disks to spin, which means that the speed of an HDD is fixed. Since the prices of the two kinds of drives are also different, many personal computers and web servers are provided with an SSD for the operating system and various applications, and a hard-disk drive for data storage, thus balancing price and efficiency. An Internet hosting service provider can also use a solid-state drive for caching purposes, so files that are used frequently will be saved on such a drive for achieving improved loading speeds and for minimizing the reading/writing processes on the hard-disk drives.
SSD with Data Caching in Cloud Hosting
If you host your Internet sites in a cloud hosting account from our company, you'll notice their exceptional performance. This is because our cloud platform uses solely SSD drives for all of the files, emails and databases and we do not use HDDs for any part of the website hosting service. In addition to the amazing ZFS file system, this configuration will increase the speed of your Internet sites considerably. For load-balancing, we also use a number of SSDs for caching purposes only. Any content that generates increased traffic or creates a lot of reading/writing processes is duplicated on them instantly, so that the load on the primary drives will be reduced, thus the overall performance of all Internet sites hosted on our end will be better. The aforementioned in turn prolongs the life of the primary drives and reduces the potential for a disk failure, which is another warranty for the reliability of any content which you upload to your account.
SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Hosting
All semi-dedicated hosting accounts that we offer are created on a cloud platform that employs only SSD drives. We do not use HDDs any longer, so your websites will load very fast since we employ SSDs for every aspect of the service - files, databases and e-mail addresses. As some users may host websites that could be more popular than others, we also use many drives for caching. Our system finds all of the content that is accessed more often and clones it on these drives so as to load it from them. This configuration is used for load-balancing purposes as we make sure that several reading/writing intensive websites will not influence the performance of the other sites that are stored on the same main drive. Using caching drives also raises the lifespan of the main storage SSDs and decreases the possibility of disk failures.