A solid-state drive (SSD) enhances the performance of any app running on it when compared with an ordinary hard-disk drive (HDD). The reason is that a solid-state drive functions with multiple interconnected flash memory units, so there're no physical parts to move. In comparison, an HDD functions with spinning disks and any reading or writing process causes the disks to move, meaning the speed of an HDD is fixed. Since the prices of the two types of drives also differ, many desktops and web servers are provided with an SSD for the operating system and various applications, and an HDD for file storage, in this way balancing price and efficiency. A website hosting service provider could also use an SSD for caching purposes, thus files which are accessed on a regular basis will be kept on this type of a drive for reaching higher loading speeds and for limiting the reading/writing processes on the hard-disk drives.
SSD with Data Caching in Shared Website Hosting
We use solely SSDs on our state-of-the-art cloud web hosting platform and we have eliminated all HDDs on the production servers so as to provide improved loading speeds for every part of our services - files, emails and databases. That way, any content which you upload to your shared website hosting account will be accessible very quickly. In order to enhance the overall performance of the websites hosted on our end even further, we also use a number of SSDs which work solely as cache - our system saves frequently accessed content on them and updates it without delay. We employ this type of a configuration to ensure that multi-media heavy sites will never influence the performance of the other Internet sites hosted on our platform and that way all other Internet sites can also take full advantage of the speed which the SSD drives provide. What's more, given that the load on the main drives is decreased, their lifespan shall be longer, that's one more warranty for the security and stability of your information.
SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Servers
If you want speed and high-end performance for your websites, our semi-dedicated server accounts will be a really suitable solution because they are created on a cloud platform that uses SSDs for each aspect of the service - e-mail addresses, databases and files. That way, every website that you host with us will load fast. Similar to other providers, we also use SSDs for caching, but since all storage drives are solid-state ones, you will be able to take advantage of the high performance at all times and irrespective of the type of your websites. The caching solid-state drives are used for load-balancing and all the frequently accessed content is copied on them, which both minimizes the load and guarantees the fantastic performance of all websites which load directly from the primary drives. The lifespan of the latter will also be increased considering that there'll be considerably less reading and writing processes on them.