A solid-state drive is noticeably quicker than any normal hard-disk drive. It is because an HDD works by using spinning disks, that can rotate only so fast and the more data is read and written, the sluggish and warmer they become, whereas an SDD employs modules of flash memory, therefore there aren't any actually moving parts. The access speeds for an SSD are drastically higher, which makes this type of drives an ideal solution if speed is needed. That's why SSDs are frequently employed for the Operating System on a desktop or notebook and for saving data which is accessed regularly on hosting servers. A lot of providers also use a combination of the two drives, so they keep the data on HDDs, but they use a couple of solid-state drives to cache the more often used data and consequently, the data loads much quicker while the load on the HDDs is lowered because their disks need to spin less often in order to read and write.

SSD with Data Caching in Shared Hosting

Our top-notch cloud Internet hosting platform employs only SSD drives, so if you obtain any of our shared hosting plans, you can take advantage of the speed that these drives provide. We no longer use HDDs, so your files, databases and e-mail messages will all open from extremely fast SSDs. For even better performance, we also use caching SSDs. A number of drives are used by our system for any file which is accessed more regularly and the data on these drives is dynamically refreshed to make sure that all of the traffic-intensive files load from them. In this way, the load on the main drives is decreased, so we can provide exceptional performance for all types of Internet sites regardless of how many times they're accessed and avoid a situation where some websites are affected by an excessive number of reading and writing processes generated by others. This setup also raises the lifespan of the main drives and decreases the risk of disk failure.