A solid-state drive is significantly quicker than any standard hard disk. It is because a hard-disk drive uses spinning disks, which can rotate only so fast and the more information is read and written, the sluggish and hotter they become, at the same time an SDD operates with modules of flash memory, hence there are no actually moving parts. The access speeds for an SSD are much higher, which makes this kind of drives an ideal solution every time speed is needed. This is the reason why SSDs are frequently used for the Operating System on a home PC and for saving data which is accessed repeatedly on web servers. A lot of service providers also use a combination of the two drives, so they keep the data on hard drives, but they use one or more solid-state drives in order to cache the more frequently used data and due to this fact, the data loads faster while the load on the HDDs is decreased because their disks need to spin less frequently in order to read and write.

SSD with Data Caching in Cloud Hosting

The cloud platform where we make cloud hosting accounts uses exclusively SSD drives, so your web apps and static websites will open very quickly. The SSDs are used for files, emails and databases, so no matter if you load a page or check for new e-mails through webmail, the content will load quickly. In order to ensure even greater speeds, we also use a group of dedicated SSDs that function only as cache. All the content that generates lots of traffic is copied on them automatically and is later read from them and not from the main storage drives. Needless to say, that content is replaced dynamically for improved performance. What we achieve this way in addition to the improved speed is lowered overall load, thus decreased chance of hardware failures, and prolonged lifespan of the main drives, which is one more level of security for any information that you upload to your account.

SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Servers

In case you buy one of our semi-dedicated server plans, your sites will be stored on a cloud platform that employs only SSD drives for the storage of files, databases and email messages. In addition to the cutting-edge ZFS file system that we use, this configuration ensures lightning-fast loading speed for every web app hosted on our end. To guarantee that the websites of one user do not affect the ones of another, we also use numerous SSDs as cache - our system detects files that are accessed more frequently and duplicates them, so they start loading from the caching drives. The content on the latter is refreshed dynamically and consequently we can balance the load on all of the drives, ensure their long life-span, lower the risk of disk failures and, of course, offer you a quick and reliable website hosting service.