A solid-state drive is much quicker than any normal hard-disk drive. It is because an HDD employs spinning disks, that can rotate only so fast and the more data is read and written, the sluggish and hotter they get, at the same time an SDD works with modules of flash memory, hence there aren't any actually moving components. The access speeds for an SSD are much higher, which makes this kind of drives the right solution in case speed is needed. This is the reason why SSDs are frequently used for the Operating System on a desktop or notebook and for saving data that is used repeatedly on hosting servers. Many providers also use a combination of the two drives, so they store the data on HDDs, but they use one or more 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 reduced because their disks have to spin less frequently in order to read and write.

SSD with Data Caching in Cloud Hosting

In case you host your sites in a cloud hosting account from our company, you'll definitely notice their exceptional performance. This is because our cloud platform uses solely SSD drives for all files, emails and databases and we do not use HDDs for any part of the hosting service. Together with the cutting-edge ZFS file system, this configuration will raise the speed of your Internet sites substantially. For load-balancing, we also use numerous SSDs for caching purposes only. Any content that generates more traffic or causes lots of reading/writing processes is copied on them automatically, so that the load on the primary drives will be reduced, thus the overall performance of all websites hosted on our end will be better. This subsequently prolongs the life of the main drives and reduces the possibility of a disk failure, that is an additional warranty for the integrity of any content which you upload to your account.

SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Servers

All semi-dedicated server accounts that we provide are made on a cloud platform which employs only SSD drives. We don't use HDDs anymore, so your Internet sites will load very fast as we use SSDs for every part of the service - files, databases and e-mails. Considering that some customers may host websites which are more frequently visited than others, we also use numerous drives for caching. Our system identifies all the content that is accessed more often and duplicates 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 websites will not influence the performance of the rest of the Internet sites which are stored on the very same primary drive. Using caching drives also increases the life-span of the main storage SSDs and reduces the possibility of disk failures.