A solid-state drive is incredibly quicker than any standard hard-disk drive. It is because an HDD works by using spinning disks, which can rotate only so fast and the more data is read and written, the slower and hotter they get, whereas an SDD employs modules of flash memory, therefore there aren't any actually moving components. The access speeds for an SSD are much higher, which makes these drives a recommended solution if speed is needed. This is the reason why SSDs are in many cases used for the Operating System on a PC and for storing data that's used repeatedly on servers. Many providers also use a combination of the two drives, so they keep the data on hard disk drives, but they use several SSDs so as to cache the more often used data and as a result, the data loads a lot faster while the load on the HDDs is lowered as their disks need to spin less often to read and write.
SSD with Data Caching in Cloud Website Hosting
The cloud platform where we create cloud website hosting accounts uses exclusively SSD drives, so your web apps and static Internet sites will load extremely fast. The SSDs are used for files, e-mail addresses and databases, so regardless if you load a page or check for new email messages through webmail, the content will load promptly. So as to offer even better speeds, we also use numerous dedicated SSDs that function only as cache. All the content which generates a lot of traffic is copied on them automatically and is later read from them and not from the main storage drives. Of course, that content is replaced dynamically for much better efficiency. What we achieve by doing this in addition to the better speed is lowered overall load, thus reduced potential for hardware failures, and longer lifespan of the primary drives, which is one more level of protection for any data that you upload to your account.
SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Hosting
In case you get one of our semi-dedicated hosting packages, your Internet sites will be stored on a cloud platform which employs only SSD drives for the storage of files, databases and e-mails. Together with the leading-edge ZFS file system that we use, this setup provides extremely fast loading speed for every web application hosted on our end. To ensure that the Internet sites of one customer won't affect the ones of another, we also use a number of SSDs as cache - our system detects files which are accessed more frequently and copies them, so 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 extended lifespan, decrease the risk of disk failures and, of course, offer you a fast and reliable Internet hosting service.