A solid-state drive (SSD) improves the performance of each app running on it when compared with a regular hard-disk drive (HDD). The reason is that an SSD functions with many different interconnected flash memory modules, so there're no physical parts to move. In comparison, an HDD functions with spinning disks and each reading or writing process causes the disks to move, so the speed of an HDD is limited. Since the prices of the two types of drives are also different, numerous desktops and web servers are provided with an SSD for the operating system and random applications, and an HDD for data storage, this way balancing cost and effectiveness. A web hosting service provider may also use a solid-state drive for caching purposes, so files which are accessed repeatedly will be stored on this type of a drive for accomplishing better loading speeds and for minimizing the reading/writing processes on the hard disks.
SSD with Data Caching in Shared Web Hosting
If you host your Internet sites in a shared web hosting account with our company, you will definitely notice their fantastic performance. The reason is that our cloud platform uses exclusively 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. Together with the revolutionary ZFS file system, this setup will boost the speed of your sites tremendously. For load-balancing, we also use multiple SSDs for caching purposes only. All content that generates increased traffic or creates a lot of reading/writing processes is duplicated on them promptly, so that the load on the main drives will be reduced, thus the overall performance of all Internet sites hosted on our end will be better. This subsequently prolongs the life of the main drives and decreases the chance of a disk failure, that is a further guarantee for the reliability of any content that you upload to your account.