A solid-state drive is really quicker than any conventional hard disk. It is because a hard-disk drive works by using rotating disks, which can rotate only so fast and the more data is read and written, the slower and hotter they become, whereas an SDD employs modules of flash memory, hence there aren't any physically moving components. The access speeds for an SSD are substantially higher, which makes this type of drives an ideal solution every time speed is needed. That's why SSDs are frequently employed for the Operating System on a laptop or computer and for saving data which is used frequently on servers. Many providers also use a combination of the two drives, so they keep the data on hard disk drives, but they use one or more SSDs in order to cache the more often used data and as a consequence, the data loads quicker while the load on the HDDs is lowered because their disks have to spin less often in order to read and write.

SSD with Data Caching in Cloud Hosting

In case you host your sites in a cloud hosting account with our company, you'll definitely notice their excellent performance. This is because our cloud platform uses only SSD drives for all files, emails and databases and we don't use HDDs for any part of the website hosting service. Together with the leading-edge ZFS file system, this setup will increase the speed of your websites substantially. For load-balancing, we also use a number of SSDs for caching purposes only. All content that generates more traffic or causes plenty of reading/writing processes is duplicated on them automatically, so the load on the primary drives will be reduced, thus the overall performance of all websites hosted with us will improve. The abovementioned subsequently prolongs the life of the main drives and lessens the potential for a disk failure, which is one more guarantee for the integrity of any content that you upload to your account.

SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Hosting

In case you subscribe for one of our semi-dedicated hosting plans, we'll keep your content on SSD drives and this is valid not just for the files, but also for all databases and e-mails. That way, your script-driven apps and webmail will load speedily. We use dedicated SSDs for caching as well. Traffic-intensive content is cloned automatically on these drives, so we ensure that a couple of heavy sites that generate a large amount of reading and writing processes can't influence the other Internet sites which share the very same drive. By reducing the overall load we also raise the lifespan of the main storage disks and decrease the chance of a disk failure, so by employing SSD drives for caching purposes, we add another level of security for your content.