A solid-state drive is substantially quicker than any regular hard-disk drive. It is because a hard-disk drive works by using rotating disks, that can rotate only so fast and the more information is read and written, the sluggish and warmer they become, at the same time an SDD operates with modules of flash memory, hence there aren't any physically moving parts. The access speeds for an SSD are much higher, which makes these drives a preferred solution in case speed is needed. This is the reason why SSDs are in many cases used for the Operating System on a PC and for storing data that is used frequently on servers. Many service providers also use a combination of both drives, so they keep the data on hard disk drives, but they use several solid-state drives to cache the more frequently used data and consequently, the data loads much quicker while the load on the HDDs is decreased since their disks need to spin less frequently in order to read and write.

SSD with Data Caching in Shared Hosting

In case you host your websites in a shared hosting account with us, you will notice their fantastic performance. The reason is that our cloud platform uses exclusively SSD drives for all the files, email addresses and databases and we do not use HDDs for any part of the web hosting service. Along with the innovative ZFS file system, this configuration 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 which generates more traffic or causes a lot of reading/writing processes is copied on them promptly, so that the load on the main drives will be reduced, thus the overall performance of all sites hosted on our end will be better. The aforementioned subsequently prolongs the life of the main drives and decreases the possibility of a disk failure, that is another guarantee for the integrity of all content that you upload to your account.

SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Hosting

All semi-dedicated hosting accounts that we provide are made on a cloud platform that uses exclusively SSD drives. We don't use HDDs anymore, so your Internet sites will load amazingly quickly since we use SSDs for each part of the service - files, databases and e-mails. As some users may host sites which could be more popular than others, we also use many drives for caching. Our system identifies any content that is accessed more frequently and clones it on these drives so as to load it from them. This setup is used for load-balancing purposes as we ensure that several reading/writing intensive sites will not affect the performance of the other Internet sites which are stored on the same main drive. Using caching drives also increases the life-span of the main storage SSDs and decreases the chance of disk failures.