A solid-state drive is much quicker than any normal hard disk. This 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 employs modules of flash memory, therefore there are no physically moving parts. The access speeds for an SSD are substantially higher, which makes these drives a preferred solution in case speed is needed. This is the reason why SSDs are in many cases employed for the Operating System on a home PC and for keeping data that's accessed repeatedly on hosting servers. A large number of service providers also use a combination of the two drives, so they store the data on hard drives, but they use several solid-state drives so as to cache the more often used data and due to this fact, the data loads much quicker while the load on the HDDs is lowered as their disks have to spin less frequently to read and write.

SSD with Data Caching in Shared Hosting

If you host your sites in a shared hosting account with us, you will definitely notice their exceptional performance. The reason is that our cloud platform uses solely SSD drives for all of the files, e-mails 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 raise the speed of your websites significantly. For load-balancing, we also use numerous SSDs for caching purposes only. All the content which generates more traffic or creates lots of reading/writing processes is duplicated on them automatically, so the load on the main drives will be reduced, thus the overall performance of all websites hosted with us will improve. This in turn prolongs the life of the main drives and reduces the chance of a disk failure, that is a further guarantee for the integrity of any content that you upload to your account.

SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you register for one of our semi-dedicated server plans, we'll keep your content on SSD drives and this is valid not only for the files, but also for all the databases and email messages. That way, your script-driven apps and webmail will load speedily. We work with dedicated SSDs for caching too. Traffic-intensive content is duplicated automatically on these drives, so we make sure that a number of heavy sites which generate plenty of reading and writing processes won't affect the other websites that share the exact same drive. By reducing the overall load we also boost the lifespan of the main storage disks and decrease the probability of a disk failure, so by employing SSD drives for caching purposes, we add another level of protection for your content.