A solid-state drive is much faster than any conventional hard-disk drive. It is because an HDD employs rotating disks, that can rotate only so fast and the more information is read and written, the slower and warmer they get, while an SDD operates with modules of flash memory, hence there aren't any physically moving components. The access speeds for an SSD are a lot higher, which makes this type of drives a recommended solution any time speed is needed. Because of this SSDs are frequently used for the Operating System on a computer system and for storing data that's used repeatedly on web servers. Numerous service providers also use a combination of both drives, so they keep the data on hard-disks, but they use one or more solid-state drives in order to cache the more often used data and as a result, the data loads much quicker while the load on the HDDs is reduced since their disks need to spin less frequently to read and write.

SSD with Data Caching in Shared Hosting

In case you host your Internet sites in a shared hosting account from our company, you will notice their exceptional performance. This is because our cloud platform uses exclusively SSD drives for all files, e-mail addresses and databases and we don't use HDDs for any part of the web hosting service. In addition to the amazing ZFS file system, this configuration will increase the speed of your Internet sites tremendously. For load-balancing, we also use multiple SSDs for caching purposes only. All of the content that generates more traffic or creates plenty of reading/writing processes is duplicated on them instantly, so that the load on the primary drives will be lower, thus the overall performance of all websites hosted with us will be better. The aforementioned subsequently prolongs the life of the main drives and reduces the chance of a disk failure, that is an additional guarantee for the reliability of all content which you upload to your account.

SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Servers

All semi-dedicated server accounts that we offer are generated on a cloud platform that employs solely SSD drives. We don't use HDDs any longer, so your websites will load very quickly since we use SSDs for each part of the service - files, databases and emails. Considering that some customers may host Internet sites that could be more frequently visited than others, we also use numerous drives for caching. Our system identifies any content that is loaded more regularly and copies it on these drives so as to load it from them. This setup is used for load-balancing purposes as we make sure that several reading/writing intensive websites will not influence the performance of the rest of the sites which are stored on the same main drive. Using caching drives also raises the lifespan of the main storage SSDs and reduces the probability of disk failures.