A solid-state drive (SSD) improves the performance of every app running on it when compared with a common hard-disk drive (HDD). The reason is that a solid-state drive works by using a variety of interconnected flash memory modules, so there are no physical parts to move. In contrast, a hard-disk drive employs spinning disks and every reading or writing process causes the disks to rotate, meaning the speed of an HDD is restricted. Since the prices of the two types of drives are also different, a large number of desktops and web servers are equipped with an SSD for the OS and various applications, and a hard-disk drive for data storage, this way balancing price and effectiveness. An Internet hosting service provider can also use a solid-state drive for caching purposes, thus files which are used very often will be saved on this type of a drive for achieving better loading speeds and for limiting the reading/writing processes on the hard disks.
SSD with Data Caching in Cloud Hosting
The cloud platform where we make cloud hosting accounts uses only SSD drives, so your web apps and static websites will load very quickly. The SSDs are used for files, emails and databases, so no matter if you load a page or check for new emails with webmail, the content will load without delay. To offer even better speeds, we also use multiple dedicated SSDs that work only as cache. All content that generates lots of traffic is copied on them automatically and is afterwards read from them and not from the primary storage drives. Needless to say, 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 lower chance of hardware failures, and longer lifespan of the main drives, that is one more level of protection for any information that you upload to your account.