A solid-state drive is much faster than any standard hard-disk drive. This is because a hard-disk drive works by using rotating disks, that can rotate only so fast and the more data is read and written, the slower and hotter they get, whereas an SDD uses modules of flash memory, hence there aren't any actually moving components. The access speeds for an SSD are drastically higher, which makes this sort of drives a recommended solution every time speed is needed. That's why SSDs are in many cases employed for the Operating System on a desktop or notebook and for keeping data that is used often on hosting servers. A lot of service providers also use a combination of the two drives, so they store the data on hard-disks, but they use several SSDs in order to cache the more often used data and as a result, the data loads quicker while the load on the HDDs is decreased because their disks have to spin less frequently in order to read and write.
SSD with Data Caching in Website Hosting
In case you host your Internet sites in a website hosting account from our company, you will notice their fantastic performance. This is because our cloud platform uses exclusively SSD drives for all of the files, email addresses and databases and we don't use HDDs for any part of the hosting service. In addition to the amazing ZFS file system, this setup will boost the speed of your Internet sites drastically. For load-balancing, we also use a number of SSDs for caching purposes only. All of the content which generates increased traffic or creates plenty of reading/writing processes is duplicated on them instantly, so that the load on the primary drives will be lower, thus the overall performance of all Internet sites hosted with us will improve. The aforementioned in turn prolongs the life of the primary drives and decreases the chance of a disk failure, that is an additional warranty for the integrity of any content which you upload to your account.
SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Servers
All semi-dedicated server accounts that we provide are made on a cloud platform that uses exclusively SSD drives. We don't use HDDs any longer, so your sites will load quickly as we employ SSDs for every part of the service - files, databases and e-mails. Considering that some users may host websites that are more popular than others, we also use numerous drives for caching. Our system detects all the content that is accessed more regularly and copies it on these drives so as to load it from them. This setup is used for load-balancing purposes as we guarantee that several reading/writing intensive Internet sites will not influence the performance of the rest of the websites that are stored on the very same primary drive. Using caching drives also increases the life-span of the main storage SSDs and reduces the potential for disk failures.