A solid-state drive is noticeably faster than any standard hard-disk drive. This is because an HDD uses spinning disks, which can rotate only so fast and the more information is read and written, the slower and hotter they become, while an SDD works with modules of flash memory, therefore there are no physically moving parts. The access speeds for an SSD are much higher, which makes these drives an ideal solution every time speed is needed. Because of this SSDs are frequently employed for the Operating System on a personal computer and for keeping data that's accessed regularly on hosting servers. Many providers also use a combination of both drives, so they store the data on hard drives, but they use several SSDs in order to cache the more often used data and because of this, the data loads much quicker while the load on the HDDs is lowered as their disks have to spin less often to read and write.

SSD with Data Caching in Web Hosting

We use solely SSDs on our advanced cloud web hosting platform and we have eliminated all HDDs on our production servers as to provide better loading speeds for all aspects of our services - files, emails and databases. This way, all of the content which you upload to your web hosting account will be accessible amazingly quickly. To boost the overall performance of the websites hosted on our end even more, we also use a number of SSDs which work only as cache - our system saves frequently accessed content on them and updates it automatically. We take advantage of this type of a setup to ensure that multi-media heavy sites will never affect the performance of the other sites hosted on our platform and that way all other websites can also take full advantage of the speed which the SSD drives provide. What's more, given that the load on the main drives is reduced, their life-span will be longer, which is one more warranty for the safety and stability of your info.