A solid-state drive is noticeably faster than any standard hard-disk drive. It is because an HDD uses spinning disks, which can rotate only so fast and the more information is read and written, the slower and warmer they become, whereas an SDD uses modules of flash memory, hence there aren't any actually moving components. The access speeds for an SSD are significantly higher, which makes this sort of drives an ideal solution in case speed is needed. This is the reason why SSDs are in many cases employed for the Operating System on a PC and for saving data which is accessed regularly on hosting servers. Numerous providers also use a combination of the two drives, so they store the data on hard disk drives, but they use a couple of solid-state drives in order to cache the more often used data and as a consequence, the data loads a lot quicker while the load on the HDDs is lowered as their disks need to spin less often to read and write.

SSD with Data Caching in Shared Hosting

Our modern cloud website hosting platform employs only SSD drives, so if you go for any of our shared hosting packages, you can benefit from the speed that these drives provide. We no longer use hard drives, so your files, databases and e-mail messages will all load from extremely fast SSDs. For even improved performance, we also use caching SSDs. Multiple drives are used by our system for every file that's accessed often and the data on these drives is dynamically updated to make sure that all of the traffic-intensive files load from them. In this way, the load on the main drives is lowered, so we can guarantee perfect performance for all sorts of sites regardless of how frequently they're accessed and prevent a situation where some Internet sites are affected by an excessive number of reading and writing processes created by others. This setup also increases the lifespan of the main drives and decreases the chance of disk failure.