A solid-state drive (SSD) boosts the performance of each app running on it when compared with a common hard-disk drive (HDD). The reason is that a solid-state drive works by using many different interconnected flash memory units, so there're no physical parts to move. In comparison, a hard-disk drive employs spinning disks and each reading or writing process causes the disks to move, meaning the speed of an HDD is restricted. Since the prices of the two kinds of drives also differ, a large number of PCs and web servers are equipped with an SSD for the OS and random applications, and a hard-disk drive for data storage, this way balancing price and efficiency. An Internet hosting service provider could also use an SSD for caching purposes, thus files which are used repeatedly will be located on such a drive for accomplishing higher loading speeds and for limiting the reading/writing processes on the HDDs.

SSD with Data Caching in Cloud Hosting

We use only SSDs on our top-notch cloud hosting platform and we have eliminated all HDDs on our production servers as to offer outstanding loading speeds for every part of our services - files, emails and databases. This way, all the content which you upload to your cloud hosting account will be reachable amazingly quickly. In order to improve the performance of the Internet sites hosted on our end even more, we also use multiple SSDs which work solely as cache - our system stores frequently accessed content on them and upgrades it automatically. We take advantage of this type of a setup to guarantee that multi-media loaded sites do not influence the performance of the other websites hosted on our platform and that way all other websites can also take full advantage of the speed that the SSD drives provide. Furthermore, since the load on the main drives is reduced, their life-span shall be longer, that is one more guarantee for the security and integrity of your information.