A solid-state drive is substantially faster than any standard hard disk. The reason is that a hard-disk drive employs rotating disks, which can rotate only so fast and the more information is read and written, the sluggish and warmer they become, while an SDD works with modules of flash memory, so there aren't any actually moving parts. The access speeds for an SSD are substantially higher, which makes this kind of drives an ideal solution if speed is needed. This is the reason why SSDs are often employed for the Operating System on a personal computer and for keeping data that's used often on hosting servers. A lot of providers also use a combination of the two drives, so they save the data on hard-disks, but they use one or more SSDs to cache the more frequently used data and due to this fact, the data loads much quicker while the load on the HDDs is decreased as their disks need to spin less frequently to read and write.

SSD with Data Caching in Web Hosting

If you host your Internet sites in a web hosting account from us, you'll notice their exceptional performance. The reason is that our cloud platform uses solely SSD drives for all of the files, emails and databases and we do not use HDDs for any part of the website hosting service. In addition to the advanced ZFS file system, this setup will boost the speed of your sites significantly. For load-balancing, we also use numerous SSDs for caching purposes only. Any content which generates more traffic or causes lots of reading/writing processes is copied on them automatically, so that the load on the primary drives will be reduced, thus the overall performance of all websites hosted with us will be better. The latter in turn prolongs the life of the primary drives and lessens 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

In case you need speed and outstanding performance for your websites, our semi-dedicated server accounts shall be a very suitable solution as they're created on a cloud platform which employs SSDs for every part of the service - email addresses, databases and files. That way, each site that you host with us will load fast. Similar to other providers, we also use SSDs for caching, but since all storage drives are solid-state ones, you'll be able to take advantage of the top performance all of the time and whatever the nature of your sites. The caching solid-state drives are used for load-balancing and all frequently accessed content is copied to them, which both decreases the load and ensures the excellent performance of all websites which load from the primary drives. The lifespan of the latter is also increased because there will be significantly less reading and writing processes on them.