A solid-state drive (SSD) boosts the performance of any app running on it as compared with a common hard-disk drive (HDD). The reason is that an SSD works by using multiple interconnected flash memory units, so there are no physical parts to move. In comparison, a hard disk employs spinning disks and each reading or writing process causes the disks to spin, which means that the speed of an HDD is restricted. Because the cost of the two kinds of drives are also different, many computer systems and web servers are provided with an SSD for the operating system and various applications, and an HDD for file storage, this way balancing cost and performance. A web hosting provider could also use a solid-state drive for caching purposes, which means that files that are accessed repeatedly will be stored on this type of a drive for reaching higher loading speeds and for reducing the reading/writing processes on the hard-disk drives.
SSD with Data Caching in Shared Hosting
If you host your websites in a shared hosting account from our company, you'll definitely notice their excellent performance. This is because our cloud platform uses only SSD drives for all of the files, e-mails and databases and we do not use HDDs for any part of the hosting service. In addition to the state-of-the-art ZFS file system, this setup will raise the speed of your websites significantly. For load-balancing, we also use a number of SSDs for caching purposes only. All the content that generates more traffic or creates lots of reading/writing processes is duplicated on them automatically, so the load on the main drives will be lower, thus the overall performance of all sites hosted on our end will be better. The abovementioned in turn prolongs the life of the main drives and lessens the possibility of a disk failure, that is an additional warranty for the integrity of any content which you upload to your account.
SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Servers
In case you need speed and top-notch performance for your websites, our semi-dedicated server accounts will be a really suitable solution because they're made on a cloud platform which employs SSDs for every part of the service - e-mails, databases and files. That way, every single site 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'll be able to take advantage of the good performance at all times and regardless 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 decreases the load and guarantees the optimal performance of all Internet sites which load straight from the primary drives. The lifespan of the latter is also increased as there will be substantially less reading and writing processes on them.