A solid-state drive is considerably faster than any standard hard-disk drive. The reason is that a hard-disk drive uses rotating disks, that can rotate only so fast and the more info is read and written, the slower and hotter they become, while an SDD works with modules of flash memory, hence there are no physically moving parts. The access speeds for an SSD are a lot higher, which makes this sort of drives the right solution when speed is needed. Because of this SSDs are often employed for the Operating System on a desktop or notebook and for keeping data which is accessed frequently on servers. Numerous providers also use a combination of the two drives, so they keep the data on hard disk drives, but they use several solid-state drives so as to cache the more frequently used data and because of this, the data loads a lot 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 sites in a web hosting account with our company, you will definitely notice their exceptional performance. This is because our cloud platform uses exclusively SSD drives for all the files, e-mails and databases and we don't use HDDs for any part of the web hosting service. In addition to the leading-edge ZFS file system, this configuration will boost the speed of your websites substantially. For load-balancing, we also use multiple SSDs for caching purposes only. All content which generates more traffic or causes lots of reading/writing processes is copied on them automatically, so the load on the primary drives will be reduced, thus the overall performance of all Internet sites hosted on our end will be better. This subsequently prolongs the life of the primary drives and decreases the possibility of a disk failure, which is an additional warranty for the integrity of any content which you upload to your account.

SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Servers

All semi-dedicated server accounts that we provide are created on a cloud platform which uses exclusively SSD drives. We don't use HDDs any longer, so your sites will load very fast since we use SSDs for every part of the service - files, databases and emails. As some customers may host Internet sites which can be more frequently visited than others, we also use numerous drives for caching. Our system finds 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 Internet sites will not influence the performance of the rest of the sites which are stored on the very same main drive. Using caching drives also raises the life-span of the main storage SSDs and lowers the probability of disk failures.