A solid-state drive is incredibly faster than any normal hard-disk drive. The reason is that an HDD employs rotating disks, that can rotate only so fast and the more info is read and written, the slower and hotter they get, at the same time an SDD uses modules of flash memory, therefore there aren't any physically moving components. The access speeds for an SSD are substantially higher, which makes this kind of drives a recommended solution if speed is needed. Because of this SSDs are frequently employed for the Operating System on a laptop or computer and for keeping data which is used regularly on hosting servers. A large number of service providers also use a combination of the two drives, so they store the data on HDDs, but they use several SSDs so as to cache the more frequently used data and as a consequence, the data loads quicker while the load on the HDDs is reduced since their disks have to spin less often in order to read and write.

SSD with Data Caching in Shared Website Hosting

If you host your sites in a shared website hosting account from us, you will notice their fantastic performance. The reason is that our cloud platform uses only SSD drives for all the files, email addresses and databases and we do not use HDDs for any part of the Internet hosting service. Together with the innovative ZFS file system, this configuration will boost the speed of your websites considerably. For load-balancing, we also use a number of SSDs for caching purposes only. All of the content which generates increased traffic or causes a lot of reading/writing processes is copied on them instantly, so the load on the main drives will be reduced, thus the overall performance of all websites hosted with us will improve. The aforementioned in turn prolongs the life of the main drives and lessens the potential for a disk failure, which is a further warranty for the integrity of any content that you upload to your account.

SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you subscribe for one of our semi-dedicated server plans, we will keep your content on SSD drives and this is valid not only for the files, but also for all databases and e-mails. That way, your script-driven apps and webmail will load very fast. We work with dedicated SSDs for caching as well. Traffic-intensive content is cloned automatically on these drives, so we ensure that a number of heavy websites that generate a large amount of reading and writing processes won't influence the other sites which share the very same drive. By reduction of the overall system load we also raise the lifespan of the primary storage disks and reduce the potential for a disk failure, so by employing SSD drives for caching purposes, we add an extra level of security for your content.