A solid-state drive is much faster than any regular hard-disk drive. It is because an HDD works by using rotating disks, which can rotate only so fast and the more data is read and written, the slower and warmer they become, at the same time an SDD uses modules of flash memory, therefore there are no actually moving components. The access speeds for an SSD are significantly higher, which makes this type of drives the best solution every time speed is needed. That's why SSDs are frequently used for the Operating System on a personal computer and for keeping data that's accessed frequently on hosting servers. Numerous service providers also use a combination of the two drives, so they store the data on HDDs, but they use several solid-state drives so as to cache the more frequently used data and for that reason, the data loads a lot faster while the load on the HDDs is decreased since their disks need to spin less frequently to read and write.
SSD with Data Caching in Cloud Hosting
The cloud platform where we make cloud hosting accounts uses solely SSD drives, so your web apps and static sites will open very fast. The SSDs are used for files, emails and databases, so regardless of whether you open a page or check for new e-mails with webmail, the content will load very quickly. To offer even better speeds, we also use multiple dedicated SSDs which work only as cache. All the 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 better performance. What we achieve this way except for the improved speed is decreased overall load, thus lower potential for hardware failures, and extended lifespan of the main drives, which is one more level of security for any info that you upload to your account.
SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Hosting
In case you acquire one of our semi-dedicated hosting plans, your Internet sites will be stored on a cloud platform which employs exclusively SSD drives for the storage of files, databases and email messages. Together with the advanced ZFS file system that we use, this setup provides very fast loading speed for any web application hosted on our end. To ensure that the websites of one user won't affect the ones of another, we also use multiple SSDs as cache - our system discovers files that are accessed more frequently and copies them, so they start loading from the caching drives. The content on the latter is refreshed dynamically and for that reason we can balance the load on all drives, warrant their long lifespan, decrease the risk of disk failures and, of course, supply a super fast and reliable web hosting service.