A solid-state drive is substantially quicker than any regular hard-disk drive. This is because an HDD employs spinning disks, which can rotate only so fast and the more data is read and written, the slower and warmer they get, whereas an SDD employs modules of flash memory, therefore there aren't any actually moving components. The access speeds for an SSD are considerably higher, which makes this kind of drives a recommended solution if speed is needed. That's why SSDs are often used for the Operating System on a desktop or notebook and for storing data which is accessed repeatedly on web servers. A large number of providers also use a combination of the two drives, so they save the data on hard drives, but they use a couple of SSDs to cache the more frequently used data and because of this, the data loads a lot quicker while the load on the HDDs is reduced because their disks need to spin less frequently in order to read and write.

SSD with Data Caching in Shared Hosting

Our top-notch cloud website hosting platform employs only SSD drives, so if you purchase any of our shared hosting plans, you can benefit from the speed that these drives provide. We no longer use hard disk drives, so your files, databases and email messages will all open from quick SSDs. For even improved performance, we also use caching SSDs. A number of drives are used by our system for any file that is accessed more regularly 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 primary drives is decreased, so we can ensure perfect performance for all types of sites no matter how frequently they are accessed and prevent a situation where some websites are affected by an excessive number of reading and writing processes generated by others. This setup also increases the lifespan of the main drives and reduces the possibility of disk failure.