A solid-state drive is considerably quicker than any conventional hard disk. It is because an HDD employs spinning disks, that can rotate only so fast and the more info is read and written, the slower and hotter they get, while an SDD employs modules of flash memory, therefore there aren't any actually moving parts. The access speeds for an SSD are a lot higher, which makes this sort of drives a recommended solution if speed is needed. Because of this SSDs are often employed for the Operating System on a desktop or notebook and for saving data that is accessed often on hosting servers. Many providers also use a combination of both drives, so they store the data on hard disk drives, but they use one or more solid-state drives to cache the more often used data and consequently, the data loads a lot 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 Hosting

If you host your Internet sites in a hosting account from our company, you will notice their exceptional performance. The reason is that our cloud platform uses solely SSD drives for all files, e-mail addresses and databases and we don't use HDDs for any part of the website hosting service. Together with the revolutionary ZFS file system, this setup will increase the speed of your websites considerably. For load-balancing, we also use multiple SSDs for caching purposes only. All of the content which generates increased traffic or creates lots 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 websites hosted on our end will improve. The latter in turn prolongs the life of the main drives and reduces the possibility of a disk failure, that is a further warranty for the reliability of any content that you upload to your account.

SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Servers

All semi-dedicated server accounts that we offer are generated on a cloud platform that uses exclusively SSD drives. We do not use HDDs any longer, so your Internet sites will load very fast because we use SSDs for every part of the service - files, databases and email addresses. Considering that some users may host Internet sites that are more popular than others, we also use numerous drives for caching. Our system detects all of the content which is accessed 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 sites will not influence the performance of the other websites which are stored on the very same primary drive. Using caching drives also raises the lifespan of the main storage SSDs and lowers the potential for disk failures.