A solid-state drive is considerably faster than any conventional hard disk. The reason is that a hard-disk drive employs rotating disks, which can rotate only so fast and the more information is read and written, the slower and hotter they get, whereas an SDD uses modules of flash memory, therefore there are no physically moving parts. The access speeds for an SSD are significantly higher, which makes this sort of drives a recommended solution every time speed is needed. That's why SSDs are often employed for the Operating System on a desktop or notebook and for keeping data which is used regularly on servers. Many service providers also use a combination of the two drives, so they save the data on hard drives, but they use several SSDs to cache the more frequently used data and consequently, the data loads quicker while the load on the HDDs is lowered since their disks have to spin less frequently to read and write.

SSD with Data Caching in Cloud Hosting

The cloud platform where we create cloud hosting accounts uses exclusively SSD drives, so your web applications and static websites will load extremely fast. The SSDs are used for files, email addresses and databases, so regardless if you load a page or check for new e-mail messages using webmail, the content will load instantly. In order to offer even better speeds, we also use numerous dedicated SSDs that function only as cache. Any content that generates lots of traffic is copied on them automatically and is afterwards read from them and not from the main storage drives. Needless to say, that content is replaced dynamically for better efficiency. What we achieve by doing this aside from the improved speed is reduced overall load, thus lower possibility of hardware failures, and longer 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

If you purchase one of our semi-dedicated server packages, your websites will be stored on a cloud platform which employs solely SSD drives for the storage of files, databases and email messages. Together with the leading-edge ZFS file system that we use, this configuration ensures very fast loading speed for each web app hosted on our end. To guarantee that the sites of one user do not affect the ones of another, we also use multiple SSDs as cache - our system identifies files which are accessed more frequently and duplicates them, so that 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, guarantee their long lifespan, reduce the risk of disk failures and, of course, provide a super fast and reliable Internet hosting service.