A solid-state drive is incredibly faster than any regular hard disk. It is because an HDD uses rotating disks, which can rotate only so fast and the more info is read and written, the slower and warmer they become, while an SDD uses modules of flash memory, so there are no physically moving components. The access speeds for an SSD are substantially higher, which makes this kind of drives a recommended solution any time speed is needed. That's why SSDs are frequently used for the Operating System on a desktop or notebook and for saving data that is accessed frequently on web servers. A large number of service providers also use a combination of both drives, so they store the data on hard disk drives, but they use several solid-state drives in order to cache the more frequently used data and because of this, the data loads much 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 Website Hosting
The cloud platform where we create website hosting accounts uses solely SSD drives, so your web apps and static Internet sites will open very fast. The SSDs are used for files, e-mail addresses and databases, so no matter if you open a page or check for new e-mails through webmail, the content will load very quickly. To offer even better speeds, we also use multiple dedicated SSDs which function only as cache. All the content which generates a lot 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 efficiency. What we achieve that way except for the better speed is lowered overall load, thus reduced chance of hardware failures, and extended lifespan of the main drives, that's one more level of protection for any data that you upload to your account.
SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Servers
If you acquire one of our semi-dedicated server packages, your Internet sites will be stored on a cloud platform that uses only SSD drives for the storing of files, databases and e-mails. Together with the cutting-edge ZFS file system that we use, this configuration provides fast loading speed for every web application hosted on our end. To guarantee that the websites of one customer won't affect the ones of another one, we also use multiple SSDs as cache - our system identifies files that are accessed more frequently and copies them, so that they start loading from the caching drives. The content on the latter is refreshed dynamically and as a result we can balance the load on all of the drives, guarantee their extended life-span, decrease the risk of disk failures and, of course, provide a super fast and reliable website hosting service.