Fast Forward to Future with SSD Server Hosting

Running of large websites such as ecommerce sites needs vast amounts of resources. The number of concurrent visits during a flash sale of black Friday can put excruciating pressure on servers. Websites can sometimes starve of resources and may result in downtime or agonizingly slow page loads.

Heavy website traffic- a matter of concern

Webmasters adopt different strategies for scaling resources, including the use of the most powerful hosting solutions such as dedicated server hosting. However unpredictability is the second nature of market forces and there are times when the most powerful and performance oriented dedicated servers are also not able to cope with the huge volumes of traffic.

Vital resources of servers, including disk space and RAM are routinely scaled up to handle large number of customer queries. Unfortunately, unexpected downtime can force customers to abandon transactions even after taking all necessary precautions.

In situations like this, one must not overlook the quality of hardware that might be the root cause of downtime or slow page loads. Hard Disk Drive is one the most vital components in terms of website performance. These disk drives fail to handle huge workloads due to their limitations.

Thanks to the superior power and performance of Solid State Drives, webmasters can look forward to achieve amazing access times hitherto impossible for the conventional Hard Disk Drives.

SSD server is way ahead of HDD operated server in terms of access times, power, and space. It is because of the basic difference in the working of these two drives that are generations apart.

Hard Disk Drives are constructed by using components that are designed to physically move and this movement is a basic differentiating factor. The difference can be better understood if we compare the good old audio or video cassettes with the modern flash storage devices.

We used to physically spin the wheels of the cassette mechanism to rewind or fast forward the tape in order to access a particular song. However a flash storage device can offer you convenience of selecting any song with a movement of cursor. Hard Disk Drives work in the same way as cassette players.

Unique advantages of Solid State Drives

SSD server hosting is powered by Solid State Drives that are nothing but flash storage devices and are devoid of any mechanical components. They operate almost 100 times faster than Hard Disk Drives, hence the difference in performance.

SSD server is able to boost website performance with no latency issues and results in faster access times. SSDs are compact and robust therefore these are less prone to physical damage unlike HDDs. One of the more distinct features of SSD server is less generation of heat and greater energy efficiency.

It is observed that mechanical movements of HDDs may lead to skipping the data during encryption or decryption process. However, SSD server ensures flawless storage of data due to absence of any mechanical movements during operations.

On the downside, SSD server is much costlier than its HDD counterpart. In spite of amazing download speeds, SSDs are not as efficient as HDDs when it comes to writing the data to disk.