A solid-state drive is incredibly quicker than any standard hard-disk drive. It is because an HDD uses rotating disks, that can rotate only so fast and the more info is read and written, the slower and warmer they become, at the same time an SDD works with modules of flash memory, so there are no actually moving components. The access speeds for an SSD are substantially higher, which makes this kind of drives an ideal solution every time speed is needed. This is the reason why SSDs are often employed for the Operating System on a desktop or notebook and for saving data which is used repeatedly on web servers. A lot of providers also use a combination of the two drives, so they save the data on hard-disks, but they use a couple of SSDs in order to cache the more often used data and consequently, the data loads quicker while the load on the HDDs is lowered because their disks need to spin less frequently in order to read and write.

SSD with Data Caching in Hosting

In case you host your Internet sites in a hosting account from us, you'll definitely notice their fantastic performance. The reason is that 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 Internet hosting service. In addition to the cutting-edge ZFS file system, this configuration will raise the speed of your Internet sites considerably. For load-balancing, we also use a number of SSDs for caching purposes only. All the content that generates increased traffic or creates a lot of reading/writing processes is duplicated on them automatically, so that the load on the primary drives will be lower, thus the overall performance of all sites hosted on our end will improve. The abovementioned in turn prolongs the life of the main drives and reduces the potential for a disk failure, that is one more warranty for the reliability of any content which you upload to your account.

SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you subscribe for one of our semi-dedicated hosting solutions, we'll store your content on SSD drives and this is valid not only for the files, but also for all the databases and e-mail messages. That way, your script-driven applications and webmail will load extremely fast. We use dedicated SSDs for caching too. Traffic-intensive content is cloned automatically on these drives, so we make certain that a number of heavy sites that generate plenty of reading and writing processes won't affect the other Internet sites which share the exact same drive. By reducing the overall system load we also increase the lifespan of the primary storage disks and lower the probability of a disk failure, so by using SSD drives for caching purposes, we add an additional level of protection for your content.