A solid-state drive (SSD) improves the performance of any application running on it as compared to an ordinary hard-disk drive (HDD). The reason is that a solid-state drive employs a variety of interconnected flash memory modules, so there are no physical parts to move. In comparison, a hard disk employs spinning disks and each reading or writing process causes the disks to spin, so the speed of an HDD is limited. As the cost of the two kinds of drives are also different, numerous PCs and web servers are set up with an SSD for the operating system and random applications, and a hard-disk drive for data storage, this way balancing price and efficiency. A website hosting service provider may also use a solid-state drive for caching purposes, thus files which are used frequently will be stored on such a drive for achieving better loading speeds and for reducing the reading/writing processes on the hard drives.
SSD with Data Caching in Cloud Website Hosting
If you host your Internet sites in a cloud website hosting account with our company, you will definitely notice their exceptional performance. This is because our cloud platform uses only SSD drives for all of the files, e-mail addresses and databases and we don't use HDDs for any part of the hosting service. Together with the amazing ZFS file system, this setup will boost the speed of your websites significantly. For load-balancing, we also use a number of SSDs for caching purposes only. Any content that generates more traffic or creates plenty of reading/writing processes is duplicated on them automatically, so the load on the main drives will be reduced, thus the overall performance of all sites hosted on our end will be better. This subsequently prolongs the life of the primary drives and reduces the possibility of a disk failure, which is an additional warranty for the reliability of any content that you upload to your account.
SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Servers
All semi-dedicated server accounts that we provide are made on a cloud platform which employs only SSD drives. We do not use HDDs any longer, so your websites will load extremely fast as we use SSDs for every aspect of the service - files, databases and e-mails. Considering that some people may host Internet sites which could be more popular than others, we also use numerous drives for caching. Our system discovers all of the content that is accessed more often and copies it on these drives so as to load it from them. This configuration is used for load-balancing purposes as we make sure that several reading/writing intensive websites will not influence the performance of the other websites that are stored on the same primary drive. Using caching drives also increases the lifespan of the main storage SSDs and decreases the potential for disk failures.