A solid-state drive is incredibly faster than any regular hard-disk drive. This is because an HDD uses rotating disks, which can rotate only so fast and the more info is read and written, the sluggish and hotter they get, while an SDD uses modules of flash memory, hence there are no physically moving parts. The access speeds for an SSD are drastically higher, which makes this kind of drives a preferred solution if speed is needed. Because of this SSDs are frequently employed for the Operating System on a desktop or notebook and for saving data which is accessed often on web servers. Numerous service providers also use a combination of both drives, so they store the data on hard drives, but they use several SSDs to cache the more frequently used data and as a result, the data loads much quicker while the load on the HDDs is lowered as their disks have to spin less frequently to read and write.
SSD with Data Caching in Cloud Hosting
The cloud platform where we make cloud hosting accounts uses exclusively SSD drives, so your web apps and static Internet sites will load extremely fast. The SSDs are used for files, email addresses and databases, so regardless if you open a page or check for new messages through webmail, the content will load without delay. So as to ensure even higher speeds, we also use numerous dedicated SSDs that function only as cache. Any content which generates lots of traffic is copied on them automatically and is later read from them and not from the main storage drives. Needless to say, that content is replaced dynamically for better efficiency. What we achieve in this way aside from the improved speed is reduced overall load, thus lower possibility of hardware failures, and extended lifespan of the primary drives, that is one more level of security for any info that you upload to your account.
SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Servers
Provided you want speed and top-notch performance for your Internet sites, our semi-dedicated server accounts will be a really suitable solution as they are created on a cloud platform that employs SSDs for each part of the service - emails, databases and files. That way, each site that you host on our end will load fast. Just like other service 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 good performance all the time and regardless of the nature of your sites. The caching drives are used for load-balancing and all the frequently accessed content is copied to them, which both minimizes the load and guarantees the good performance of all websites which load directly from the primary drives. The lifespan of the latter will also be increased as there will be significantly less reading and writing processes on them.