A solid-state drive (SSD) boosts the performance of each application running on it as compared to a common hard-disk drive (HDD). The reason is that an SSD works by using a variety of interconnected flash memory modules, so there are no physical parts to move. In comparison, an HDD works by using spinning disks and any reading or writing process causes the disks to move, which means that the speed of an HDD is fixed. As the prices of the two types of drives also differ, lots of desktops and web servers are provided with an SSD for the OS and various applications, and a hard disk for data storage, in this way balancing price and performance. An Internet hosting provider could also use an SSD for caching purposes, which means that files that are accessed very often will be kept on this type of a drive for achieving better loading speeds and for reducing the reading/writing processes on the hard disks.
SSD with Data Caching in Shared Website Hosting
Our top-notch cloud Internet hosting platform uses exclusively SSD drives, so in case you obtain any of our shared website hosting solutions, you can take advantage of the speed that the drives provide. We no longer use HDDs, so your files, databases and e-mails will all open from ultra fast SSDs. For even greater performance, we use caching SSDs. A group of drives are used by our system for any file which is accessed more regularly and the data on these drives is dynamically refreshed to ensure that all the traffic-intensive files load from them. This way, the load on the main drives is lowered, so we can guarantee perfect performance for all sorts of sites irrespective of how frequently they're accessed and prevent a situation where some websites are affected by too many reading and writing processes created by others. This setup also increases the lifespan of the primary drives and decreases the possibility of disk failure.