A solid-state drive (SSD) enhances the performance of any application running on it compared to a classic hard-disk drive (HDD). The reason is that an SSD functions with many different interconnected flash memory units, so there're no physical parts to move. In contrast, an HDD employs spinning disks and each reading or writing process causes the disks to spin, so the speed of an HDD is limited. Because the prices of the two kinds of drives are also different, a lot of computer systems and web servers are provided with an SSD for the OS and random applications, and a hard disk for data storage, in this way balancing cost and overall performance. An Internet hosting provider can also use an SSD for caching purposes, which means that files which are used repeatedly will be stored on this type of a drive for reaching better loading speeds and for reducing the reading/writing processes on the hard disks.
SSD with Data Caching in Hosting
If you host your sites in a hosting account from us, you will definitely notice their fantastic performance. This is because our cloud platform uses exclusively SSD drives for all the files, emails and databases and we do not use HDDs for any part of the Internet hosting service. Along with the innovative ZFS file system, this configuration will boost the speed of your Internet sites significantly. For load-balancing, we also use numerous SSDs for caching purposes only. All content which generates increased traffic or causes lots of reading/writing processes is duplicated on them instantly, so that the load on the main drives will be lower, thus the overall performance of all sites hosted on our end will improve. The abovementioned subsequently prolongs the life of the main drives and lessens the chance of a disk failure, that is an additional warranty for the integrity of any content which you upload to your account.