A solid-state drive (SSD) boosts the performance of every app running on it when compared with an ordinary hard-disk drive (HDD). The reason is that a solid-state drive uses a number of interconnected flash memory modules, so there're no physical parts to move. In contrast, a hard disk contains spinning disks and each reading or writing process causes the disks to rotate, which means that the speed of an HDD is limited. Because the cost of the two kinds of drives also differ, lots of personal computers and web servers are set up with an SSD for the OS and random applications, and an HDD for file storage, in this way balancing price and efficiency. A hosting provider can also use a solid-state drive for caching purposes, thus files which are used repeatedly will be kept on such a drive for achieving improved loading speeds and for limiting the reading/writing processes on the hard-disk drives.

SSD with Data Caching in Cloud Website Hosting

The cloud platform where we make cloud website hosting accounts uses exclusively SSD drives, so your web applications and static Internet sites will open extremely fast. The SSDs are used for files, emails and databases, so regardless of whether you load a page or check for new emails using webmail, the content will load without delay. In order to ensure even better speeds, we also use multiple dedicated SSDs that function only as cache. All of the content that generates lots of traffic is copied on them automatically and is later read from them and not from the main storage drives. Of course, that content is replaced dynamically for much better performance. What we achieve in this way aside from the improved speed is decreased overall load, thus reduced chance of hardware failures, and longer lifespan of the main drives, which is one more level of security for any info that you upload to your account.