A solid-state drive is really faster than any standard hard-disk drive. This is because a hard-disk drive works by using rotating disks, which can rotate only so fast and the more data is read and written, the slower and hotter they become, at the same time an SDD uses modules of flash memory, therefore there aren't any physically moving parts. The access speeds for an SSD are drastically higher, which makes this type of drives an ideal solution if speed is needed. That's why SSDs are often used for the Operating System on a laptop or computer and for keeping data that's accessed regularly on web servers. Numerous providers also use a combination of both drives, so they keep the data on hard disk drives, but they use several solid-state drives so as to cache the more often used data and for that reason, the data loads faster 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 Shared Website Hosting
If you host your sites in a shared website hosting account with our company, you'll notice their exceptional performance. This is because our cloud platform uses exclusively SSD drives for all of the files, email addresses and databases and we do not use HDDs for any part of the hosting service. Along with the advanced ZFS file system, this setup will boost the speed of your websites considerably. For load-balancing, we also use numerous SSDs for caching purposes only. Any content that generates more traffic or causes plenty of reading/writing processes is copied on them promptly, so the load on the main drives will be reduced, thus the overall performance of all Internet sites hosted on our end will improve. The latter subsequently prolongs the life of the main drives and lessens the possibility of a disk failure, which is one more warranty for the integrity of all content that you upload to your account.
SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Servers
All semi-dedicated server accounts that we offer are created on a cloud platform that uses solely SSD drives. We do not use HDDs anymore, so your Internet sites will load amazingly quickly as we employ SSDs for each part of the service - files, databases and e-mails. Considering that some users may host Internet sites which are more popular than others, we also use numerous drives for caching. Our system detects all the content that is accessed more regularly and clones it on these drives in order to load it from them. This setup is used for load-balancing purposes as we ensure that several reading/writing intensive websites will not affect the performance of the other Internet sites that are stored on the same primary drive. Using caching drives also increases the life-span of the main storage SSDs and lowers the probability of disk failures.