A solid-state drive (SSD) boosts the performance of every application running on it compared with a classic hard-disk drive (HDD). The reason is that a solid-state drive works by using multiple interconnected flash memory modules, so there're no physical parts to move. In comparison, a hard-disk drive works by using spinning disks and each reading or writing process causes the disks to move, meaning the speed of an HDD is limited. Because the cost of the two types of drives are also different, many computer systems and web servers are set up with an SSD for the operating system and various applications, and a hard disk for data storage, thus balancing price and performance. A website hosting service provider could also use a solid-state drive for caching purposes, which means that files that are used frequently will be held on such a drive for accomplishing higher loading speeds and for minimizing the reading/writing processes on the hard-disk drives.
SSD with Data Caching in Cloud Website Hosting
If you host your websites in a cloud website hosting account from our company, you will notice their fantastic performance. The reason is that our cloud platform uses exclusively SSD drives for all the files, emails and databases and we don't use HDDs for any part of the hosting service. In addition to the innovative ZFS file system, this configuration will increase the speed of your websites tremendously. For load-balancing, we also use numerous SSDs for caching purposes only. All content which generates increased traffic or causes plenty of reading/writing processes is copied on them instantly, so that the load on the main drives will be reduced, thus the overall performance of all sites hosted on our end will improve. The aforementioned subsequently prolongs the life of the primary drives and lessens the possibility of a disk failure, which is one more guarantee for the reliability of all content which you upload to your account.