A solid-state drive is much quicker than any normal hard-disk drive. The reason is that a hard-disk drive employs rotating disks, which can rotate only so fast and the more information is read and written, the slower and hotter they become, whereas an SDD uses modules of flash memory, hence there aren't any actually moving components. The access speeds for an SSD are considerably higher, which makes this sort of drives the right solution any time speed is needed. Because of this SSDs are in many cases used for the Operating System on a personal computer and for keeping data that's used regularly on hosting servers. Numerous service providers also use a combination of both drives, so they keep the data on hard disk drives, but they use several solid-state drives in order to cache the more often used data and for that reason, the data loads a lot quicker while the load on the HDDs is reduced as their disks need to spin less frequently in order to read and write.
SSD with Data Caching in Shared Hosting
Our state-of-the-art cloud Internet hosting platform uses solely SSD drives, so if you get any of our shared hosting solutions, you'll take advantage of the speed that these drives provide. We no longer use hard drives, so your files, databases and emails will all load from fast SSDs. For even greater performance, we use caching SSDs. Multiple drives are used by our system for each file which is accessed more frequently and the data on these drives is dynamically refreshed to make sure that all of the traffic-intensive files load from them. In this way, the load on the main drives is decreased, so we can guarantee perfect performance for all Internet sites regardless of how many times they're accessed and avoid a situation where some Internet sites are affected by an excessive number of reading and writing processes created by others. This setup also raises the lifespan of the main drives and reduces the possibility of disk failure.
SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Hosting
If you purchase one of our semi-dedicated hosting plans, your websites will be stored on a cloud platform that uses solely SSD drives for the storing of files, databases and emails. In addition to the advanced ZFS file system that we use, this setup guarantees very fast loading speed for each web application hosted on our end. To guarantee that the sites of one user won't affect the ones of another one, we also use multiple SSDs as cache - our system finds files which are accessed more frequently and clones them, so that 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, ensure their long life-span, decrease the risk of disk failures and, of course, provide you with a fast and reliable web hosting service.