A solid-state drive (SSD) enhances the performance of every app running on it in comparison with a common hard-disk drive (HDD). The reason is that an SSD uses multiple interconnected flash memory modules, so there are no physical parts to move. In comparison, a hard-disk drive contains spinning disks and every reading or writing process causes the disks to spin, which means that the speed of an HDD is fixed. Since the prices of the two kinds of drives are different as well, numerous personal computers and web servers are provided with an SSD for the OS and random applications, and a hard-disk drive for data storage, thus balancing price and effectiveness. A web hosting provider can also use an SSD for caching purposes, thus files that are used repeatedly will be held on such a drive for accomplishing better loading speeds and for reducing the reading/writing processes on the hard-disk drives.
SSD with Data Caching in Shared Web Hosting
Our state-of-the-art cloud hosting platform employs solely SSD drives, so if you obtain any of our shared web hosting solutions, you can take full advantage of the speed that these drives provide. We no longer use hard disk drives, so your files, databases and e-mail messages will all open from fast SSDs. For even better performance, we also use caching solid-state drives. A number of drives are used by our system for every file that is accessed often and the data on these drives is dynamically updated to ensure that all of the traffic-intensive files load from them. In this way, the load on the main drives is decreased, so we can ensure excellent performance for all kinds of sites irrespective of how often they are accessed and prevent a situation where some websites are affected by too many reading and writing processes created by others. This setup also raises the lifespan of the primary drives and reduces the possibility of disk failure.