A solid-state drive is really quicker than any normal hard-disk drive. The reason is that an HDD works by using spinning disks, which can rotate only so fast and the more data is read and written, the slower and warmer they become, while an SDD uses modules of flash memory, hence there are no actually moving parts. The access speeds for an SSD are much higher, which makes this sort of drives a recommended solution every time speed is needed. This is the reason why SSDs are in many cases employed for the Operating System on a computer system and for keeping data that's accessed regularly on hosting servers. A lot of service providers also use a combination of both drives, so they keep the data on HDDs, but they use several solid-state drives in order to cache the more frequently used data and because of this, the data loads a lot faster 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 Web Hosting

If you host your sites in a web hosting account with us, you'll notice their exceptional performance. The reason is that our cloud platform uses exclusively SSD drives for all the files, e-mail addresses and databases and we do not use HDDs for any part of the hosting service. Along with the amazing ZFS file system, this configuration will raise the speed of your websites substantially. For load-balancing, we also use a number of SSDs for caching purposes only. All the content which generates more traffic or creates a lot of reading/writing processes is duplicated on them instantly, so that the load on the primary drives will be reduced, thus the overall performance of all sites hosted with us will be better. The latter in turn prolongs the life of the main drives and lessens the chance of a disk failure, which is one more warranty for the reliability of any content which you upload to your account.

SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Servers

In case you obtain one of our semi-dedicated server packages, your websites will be stored on a cloud platform that employs only SSD drives for the storing of files, databases and emails. Together with the cutting-edge ZFS file system that we use, this configuration provides fast loading speed for every web app hosted on our end. To guarantee that the Internet sites of one customer don't affect the ones of another, 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 for that reason we can balance the load on all of the drives, ensure their long life-span, reduce the risk of disk failures and, of course, provide you with a quick and reliable Internet hosting service.