A solid-state drive (SSD) boosts the performance of every application running on it in comparison to an ordinary hard-disk drive (HDD). The reason is that an SSD employs many different interconnected flash memory modules, so there are no physical parts to move. In comparison, a hard-disk drive features spinning disks and each reading or writing process causes the disks to move, which means that the speed of an HDD is limited. As the prices of the two types of drives are different as well, many desktops and web servers are provided with an SSD for the OS and random applications, and a hard-disk drive for data storage, in this way balancing price and performance. A web hosting provider can also use an SSD for caching purposes, thus files that are accessed frequently will be saved on this type of a drive for reaching improved loading speeds and for minimizing the reading/writing processes on the HDDs.
SSD with Data Caching in Hosting
We use only SSDs on our leading-edge cloud web hosting platform and we have eliminated all HDDs on the production servers as to offer lightning-fast loading speeds for every aspect of our services - files, emails and databases. Thus, any content that you upload to your hosting account will be reachable very fast. To boost the performance of the websites hosted on our end even further, we also use multiple SSDs which work solely as cache - our system stores often accessed content on them and updates it automatically. We employ such a setup to ensure that multi-media loaded Internet sites do not affect the performance of the other websites hosted on our platform and this way all other sites can also take full advantage of the speed that the SSD drives provide. What's more, given that the load on the main drives is decreased, their lifespan shall be longer, that is one more guarantee for the safety and stability of your info.