A solid-state drive (SSD) boosts the performance of every application running on it compared to a regular hard-disk drive (HDD). The reason is that an SSD works by using many different interconnected flash memory modules, so there are no physical parts to move. In comparison, a hard disk functions with spinning disks and every reading or writing process causes the disks to rotate, which means that the speed of an HDD is fixed. Since the prices of the two types of drives are also different, a lot of computer systems and web servers are provided with an SSD for the operating system and various applications, and a hard disk for data storage, thus balancing cost and effectiveness. An Internet hosting provider could also use an SSD for caching purposes, thus files that are accessed repeatedly will be located on such a drive for achieving higher loading speeds and for minimizing the reading/writing processes on the hard-disk drives.
SSD with Data Caching in Cloud Website Hosting
In case you host your websites in a cloud website hosting account from our company, you will notice their fantastic performance. The reason is that our cloud platform uses only SSD drives for all the files, e-mails and databases and we do not use HDDs for any part of the hosting service. Together with the innovative ZFS file system, this configuration will increase the speed of your Internet sites tremendously. For load-balancing, we also use multiple SSDs for caching purposes only. All content that generates increased traffic or causes a lot of reading/writing processes is duplicated on them instantly, so that the load on the primary drives will be reduced, thus the overall performance of all websites hosted on our end will be better. The aforementioned in turn prolongs the life of the primary drives and reduces the possibility of a disk failure, that is a further guarantee for the reliability of any content that you upload to your account.