A solid-state drive is substantially faster than any conventional hard disk. This is because an HDD works by using rotating disks, that can rotate only so fast and the more info is read and written, the sluggish and warmer they become, at the same time an SDD operates with modules of flash memory, therefore there are no physically moving components. The access speeds for an SSD are a lot higher, which makes this type of drives an ideal solution in case speed is needed. Because of this SSDs are often used for the Operating System on a home PC and for saving data which is accessed frequently on web servers. A large number of service providers also use a combination of both drives, so they keep the data on hard-disks, but they use one or more SSDs to cache the more often used data and as a result, the data loads quicker while the load on the HDDs is reduced because their disks need to spin less frequently in order to read and write.

SSD with Data Caching in Web Hosting

In case you host your websites in a web hosting account with our company, you'll notice their excellent performance. This is because our cloud platform uses solely SSD drives for all files, e-mails and databases and we don't use HDDs for any part of the Internet hosting service. Together with the advanced ZFS file system, this setup will boost the speed of your sites substantially. For load-balancing, we also use a number of SSDs for caching purposes only. All the content that generates more traffic or causes lots of reading/writing processes is duplicated on them automatically, so the load on the main drives will be lower, thus the overall performance of all Internet sites hosted with us will improve. The aforementioned in turn prolongs the life of the main drives and reduces the chance of a disk failure, that is an additional guarantee for the reliability of any content which you upload to your account.

SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you obtain one of our semi-dedicated server plans, your Internet sites will be stored on a cloud platform which uses exclusively SSD drives for the storage of files, databases and e-mail messages. Together with the cutting-edge ZFS file system that we use, this setup provides extremely fast loading speed for each web application hosted on our end. To guarantee that the sites of one customer don't affect the ones of another one, we also use numerous SSDs as cache - our system discovers files that are accessed more frequently and duplicates them, so they start loading from the caching drives. The content on the latter is refreshed dynamically and because of this we can balance the load on all drives, guarantee their long lifespan, decrease the risk of disk failures and, of course, supply a super fast and reliable web hosting service.