A solid-state drive is significantly faster than any normal hard disk. The reason is that an HDD employs spinning disks, which can rotate only so fast and the more information is read and written, the sluggish and hotter they become, at the same time an SDD uses modules of flash memory, hence there aren't any physically moving parts. The access speeds for an SSD are drastically higher, which makes these drives an ideal solution when speed is needed. That's why SSDs are frequently employed for the Operating System on a PC and for keeping data that's used repeatedly on web servers. A lot of providers also use a combination of both drives, so they save the data on hard disk drives, but they use a couple of solid-state drives to cache the more frequently used data and for that reason, the data loads quicker while the load on the HDDs is reduced as their disks need to spin less frequently in order to read and write.
SSD with Data Caching in Shared Hosting
The cloud platform where we create shared hosting accounts uses only SSD drives, so your web apps and static websites will load extremely fast. The SSDs are used for files, emails and databases, so no matter if you open a page or check for new email messages through webmail, the content will load immediately. So as to ensure even greater speeds, we also use a number of dedicated SSDs that work only as cache. All content that generates a lot 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 much better performance. What we achieve that way aside from the better speed is decreased overall load, thus reduced potential for hardware failures, and longer lifespan of the primary drives, that is one more level of protection for any info that you upload to your account.
SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Servers
If you want speed and excellent performance for your Internet sites, our semi-dedicated server accounts will be a really suitable solution since they are created on a cloud platform which employs SSDs for each part of the service - e-mails, databases and files. This way, each and every site that you host with us will load fast. Similar to other companies, we also use SSDs for caching, but since all storage drives are solid-state ones, you will be able to take advantage of the high performance at all times and irrespective of the type of your Internet sites. The caching drives are used for load-balancing and all of the frequently accessed content is copied on them, which both minimizes the load and guarantees the excellent performance of all sites that load from the main drives. The lifespan of the latter is also increased because there'll be a lot less reading and writing processes on them.