A solid-state drive is really faster than any standard hard disk. It is because an HDD works by using rotating disks, that can rotate only so fast and the more info is read and written, the sluggish and warmer they get, at the same time an SDD employs modules of flash memory, hence there are no physically moving parts. The access speeds for an SSD are a lot higher, which makes this kind of drives a preferred solution every time speed is needed. This is the reason why SSDs are in many cases used for the Operating System on a personal computer and for storing data which is used regularly on hosting servers. Many providers also use a combination of both drives, so they save the data on hard disk drives, but they use several solid-state drives in order to cache the more often used data and as a consequence, the data loads a lot quicker while the load on the HDDs is lowered because their disks have to spin less frequently to read and write.
SSD with Data Caching in Cloud Website Hosting
We use exclusively SSDs on our advanced cloud web hosting platform and we have eliminated all HDDs on the production servers as to ensure improved loading speeds for every part of our services - files, emails and databases. Thus, all of the content that you upload to your cloud website hosting account will be accessible amazingly quickly. In order to improve the performance of the Internet sites hosted on our end even further, we also use a number of SSDs which work only as cache - our system saves frequently accessed content on them and updates it instantly. We take advantage of this kind of a configuration to make sure that multi-media heavy sites don't affect the performance of the other Internet sites hosted on our platform and this way all other websites can also take full advantage of the speed that the SSD drives provide. Furthermore, due to the fact that the load on the main drives is reduced, their life-span shall be longer, which is one more warranty for the safety and integrity of your information.
SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Hosting
If you register for one of our semi-dedicated hosting plans, we'll save your content on SSD drives and this is valid not only for the files, but also for all of the databases and emails. That way, your script-driven apps and webmail will load amazingly quickly. We work with dedicated SSDs for caching as well. Traffic-intensive content is cloned automatically on these drives, so we make sure that a number of heavy sites which generate a considerable amount of reading and writing processes will not influence the other websites that share the same drive. By reducing the overall load we also boost the lifespan of the primary storage drives and lower the potential for a disk failure, so by using SSD drives for caching purposes, we add an extra level of protection for your website content.