A solid-state drive is noticeably faster than any normal hard-disk drive. It is because an HDD uses rotating disks, that can rotate only so fast and the more information is read and written, the slower and warmer they get, whereas an SDD works with modules of flash memory, hence there aren't any physically moving components. The access speeds for an SSD are significantly higher, which makes these drives a recommended solution if speed is needed. Because of this SSDs are frequently used for the Operating System on a desktop or notebook and for saving data that's used regularly on servers. A lot of providers also use a combination of both drives, so they keep the data on hard drives, but they use a couple of SSDs so as to cache the more frequently used data and because of that, the data loads much quicker while the load on the HDDs is decreased since their disks need to spin less often to read and write.

SSD with Data Caching in Cloud Hosting

In case you host your Internet sites in a cloud hosting account with us, you will definitely notice their exceptional performance. This is because our cloud platform uses solely SSD drives for all of the files, email addresses and databases and we do not use HDDs for any part of the web hosting service. Along with the amazing ZFS file system, this configuration will increase the speed of your Internet sites significantly. For load-balancing, we also use numerous SSDs for caching purposes only. All of the content that generates more traffic or creates lots of reading/writing processes is copied on them automatically, so that the load on the main drives will be lower, thus the overall performance of all websites hosted on our end will improve. The aforementioned subsequently prolongs the life of the main drives and reduces the potential for a disk failure, which is a further 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 provide are made on a cloud platform which uses exclusively SSD drives. We don't use HDDs anymore, so your sites will load extremely fast as we employ SSDs for each part of the service - files, databases and email addresses. Considering that some people may host Internet sites that are more popular than others, we also use multiple drives for caching. Our system identifies all of the content that is accessed more often and copies it on these drives so as to load it from them. This configuration is used for load-balancing purposes as we make sure that several reading/writing intensive sites will not affect the performance of the rest of the sites which are stored on the same primary drive. Using caching drives also increases the life-span of the main storage SSDs and reduces the probability of disk failures.