A solid-state drive is considerably faster than any conventional hard-disk drive. The reason is that a hard-disk drive works by using spinning disks, which can rotate only so fast and the more info is read and written, the slower and hotter they get, whereas an SDD works with modules of flash memory, so there aren't any physically moving parts. The access speeds for an SSD are substantially higher, which makes this sort of drives a preferred solution if speed is needed. Because of this SSDs are frequently used for the Operating System on a computer system and for storing data that is used often on hosting servers. A lot of providers also use a combination of both drives, so they store the data on hard-disks, but they use a couple of SSDs to cache the more often used data and consequently, the data loads much quicker while the load on the HDDs is decreased because their disks need to spin less often to read and write.

SSD with Data Caching in Shared Web Hosting

If you host your Internet sites in a shared web hosting account from us, you'll definitely notice their exceptional performance. This is because our cloud platform uses solely SSD drives for all of the files, email addresses and databases and we do not use HDDs for any part of the web hosting service. Along with the cutting-edge ZFS file system, this configuration will raise the speed of your websites considerably. For load-balancing, we also use a number of SSDs for caching purposes only. Any content that generates more traffic or creates a lot of reading/writing processes is duplicated on them automatically, so that 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 decreases the possibility of a disk failure, which is one more warranty for the reliability of any content which you upload to your account.