A solid-state drive is incredibly quicker than any regular hard-disk drive. 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 slower and warmer they get, whereas an SDD employs modules of flash memory, therefore there are no actually moving parts. The access speeds for an SSD are a lot higher, which makes this kind of drives the best solution when speed is needed. This is the reason why SSDs are often employed for the Operating System on a PC and for saving data that's used frequently on servers. A lot of service providers also use a combination of both drives, so they save the data on hard drives, but they use a couple of solid-state drives so as to cache the more often used data and because of that, the data loads quicker while the load on the HDDs is reduced since their disks have to spin less often in order to read and write.
SSD with Data Caching in Website Hosting
The cloud platform where we make website hosting accounts uses only SSD drives, so your web applications and static sites will open very quickly. The SSDs are used for files, emails and databases, so regardless if you open a page or check for new e-mails with webmail, the content will load immediately. In order to ensure even greater speeds, we also use a number of dedicated SSDs which work only as cache. All content which generates a lot of traffic is copied on them automatically and is later on read from them and not from the main storage drives. Needless to say, that content is replaced dynamically for much better performance. What we achieve by doing this aside from the better speed is lowered overall load, thus decreased probability of hardware failures, and longer lifespan of the main drives, that's one more level of security for any data that you upload to your account.
SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Servers
In case you sign up for one of our semi-dedicated server plans, we will hold your content on SSD drives and this is valid not only for the files, but also for all of the databases and e-mail messages. Thus, your script-driven applications and webmail will load very fast. We employ dedicated SSDs for caching too. Traffic-intensive website content is cloned automatically on these drives, so we ensure that a few heavy websites which generate a large amount of reading and writing processes can't influence the other websites which share the exact same drive. By reducing the overall system load we also boost the lifespan of the main storage drives and decrease the potential for a disk failure, so by using SSD drives for caching purposes, we add an extra level of security for your site content.