A solid-state drive (SSD) boosts the performance of each app running on it when compared to an ordinary hard-disk drive (HDD). The reason is that an SSD employs a variety of interconnected flash memory modules, so there're no physical parts to move. In contrast, a hard-disk drive features spinning disks and every reading or writing process causes the disks to spin, meaning the speed of an HDD is restricted. Since the cost of the two kinds of drives are also different, numerous computer systems and web servers are provided with an SSD for the OS and various applications, and a hard disk for file storage, in this way balancing cost and overall performance. A web hosting service provider may also use a solid-state drive for caching purposes, thus files that are accessed regularly will be held on such a drive for accomplishing better loading speeds and for minimizing the reading/writing processes on the HDDs.

SSD with Data Caching in Web Hosting

The cloud platform where we create web hosting accounts uses solely SSD drives, so your web applications and static Internet sites will open extremely fast. The SSDs are used for files, emails and databases, so regardless of whether you load a page or check for new messages using webmail, the content will load quickly. In order to offer even higher speeds, we also use numerous dedicated SSDs that work only as cache. All content which generates lots of traffic is copied on them automatically and is afterwards read from them and not from the primary storage drives. Needless to say, that content is replaced dynamically for much better efficiency. What we achieve in this way in addition to the improved speed is lowered overall load, thus reduced chance of hardware failures, and prolonged lifespan of the main drives, which is one more level of security for any data that you upload to your account.