A solid-state drive (SSD) enhances the performance of any app running on it compared to an ordinary hard-disk drive (HDD). The reason is that an SSD works by using a variety of interconnected flash memory modules, so there are no physical parts to move. In contrast, an HDD uses spinning disks and each reading or writing process causes the disks to rotate, so the speed of an HDD is fixed. As the cost of the two types of drives are different as well, a lot of desktops and web servers are provided with an SSD for the OS and various applications, and a hard-disk drive for data storage, this way balancing cost and performance. A hosting provider may also use an SSD for caching purposes, thus files which are used on a regular basis will be held on this type of a drive for reaching higher loading speeds and for limiting the reading/writing processes on the HDDs.

SSD with Data Caching in Cloud Hosting

Our innovative cloud website hosting platform employs only SSD drives, so if you buy any of our cloud hosting plans, you will take full advantage of the speed that these drives provide. We no longer use hard drives, so your files, databases and e-mail messages will all load from high-speed SSDs. For even improved performance, we also use caching solid-state drives. A number of drives are used by our system for any file that's accessed more often and the data on these drives is dynamically refreshed in order to ensure that all of the traffic-intensive files load from them. This way, the load on the main drives is decreased, so we can guarantee fantastic performance for all sorts of Internet sites no matter how frequently they're accessed and prevent a situation where some sites are affected by an excessive number of reading and writing processes created by others. This setup also raises the lifespan of the primary drives and decreases the chance of disk failure.