A solid-state drive is noticeably faster than any standard hard-disk drive. This is because an HDD works by using rotating disks, which 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 operates with modules of flash memory, therefore there are no physically moving components. The access speeds for an SSD are substantially higher, which makes these drives the best solution when speed is needed. Because of this SSDs are frequently employed for the Operating System on a computer system and for storing data that is accessed frequently on hosting servers. Many providers also use a combination of the two drives, so they store the data on hard drives, but they use several SSDs so as to cache the more often used data and as a consequence, the data loads much quicker while the load on the HDDs is lowered as their disks need to spin less frequently to read and write.

SSD with Data Caching in Website Hosting

In case you host your sites in a website hosting account with our company, you'll notice their exceptional performance. This is because our cloud platform uses solely SSD drives for all the files, e-mails and databases and we don't use HDDs for any part of the Internet hosting service. Together with the leading-edge ZFS file system, this configuration will raise the speed of your Internet sites drastically. For load-balancing, we also use multiple SSDs for caching purposes only. All content that generates increased traffic or causes plenty of reading/writing processes is copied on them instantly, so the load on the main drives will be lower, thus the overall performance of all websites hosted on our end will be better. The aforementioned in turn prolongs the life of the primary drives and reduces the potential for a disk failure, which is one more warranty for the integrity of all content which you upload to your account.

SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you acquire one of our semi-dedicated server packages, your sites will be stored on a cloud platform that employs exclusively SSD drives for the storage of files, databases and e-mail messages. Together with the leading-edge ZFS file system that we use, this setup guarantees extremely fast loading speed for any web app hosted on our end. To guarantee that the Internet sites of one customer won't affect the ones of another one, we also use a number of SSDs as cache - our system identifies files which are accessed more frequently and duplicates them, so they start loading from the caching drives. The content on the latter is refreshed dynamically and because of this we can balance the load on all the drives, ensure their long lifespan, minimize the risk of disk failures and, of course, supply a super fast and reliable Internet hosting service.