A solid-state drive is substantially quicker than any standard hard-disk drive. The reason is that an HDD employs spinning disks, that can rotate only so fast and the more information is read and written, the slower and warmer they get, while an SDD works with modules of flash memory, therefore there are no 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. This is the reason why SSDs are often used for the Operating System on a computer system and for keeping data that is accessed repeatedly on 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 one or more SSDs so as to cache the more frequently used data and consequently, the data loads faster while the load on the HDDs is decreased since their disks have to spin less frequently in order to read and write.

SSD with Data Caching in Shared Hosting

Our state-of-the-art cloud Internet hosting platform employs only SSD drives, so if you buy any of our shared hosting packages, you can benefit from the speed that the drives provide. We no longer use hard drives, so your files, databases and e-mail messages will all open from extremely fast SSDs. For even improved performance, we also use caching SSDs. Multiple drives are used by our system for any file that's accessed more regularly and the data on these drives is dynamically refreshed in order to make sure that all of the traffic-intensive files load from them. This way, the load on the primary drives is reduced, so we can ensure exceptional performance for all sorts of Internet sites no matter how many times they're accessed and prevent a situation where some sites are affected by an excessive number of reading and writing processes generated by others. This setup also raises the lifespan of the main drives and decreases the chance of disk failure.

SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Servers

In case you acquire 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 e-mail messages. Together with the leading-edge ZFS file system that we use, this setup provides extremely fast loading speed for each web app hosted on our end. To ensure that the websites of one user don't affect the ones of another, we also use multiple SSDs as cache - our system finds files that are accessed more frequently and clones them, so that they start loading from the caching drives. The content on the latter is updated dynamically and as a result we can balance the load on all drives, guarantee their extended lifespan, minimize the risk of disk failures and, of course, supply a super fast and reliable web hosting service.