A solid-state drive is much faster than any conventional hard-disk drive. The reason is that an HDD uses spinning disks, that can rotate only so fast and the more information is read and written, the slower and hotter they get, at the same time an SDD works with modules of flash memory, therefore there are no physically moving parts. The access speeds for an SSD are drastically higher, which makes this sort of drives the right solution in case speed is needed. That's why SSDs are frequently employed for the Operating System on a home PC and for storing data that's used regularly on hosting servers. Numerous service providers also use a combination of the two drives, so they keep the data on HDDs, but they use one or more SSDs so as to cache the more frequently used data and as a result, the data loads much quicker 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 Cloud Hosting

In case you host your Internet sites in a cloud hosting account with us, you will definitely notice their fantastic performance. The reason is that our cloud platform uses exclusively SSD drives for all files, e-mails and databases and we do not use HDDs for any part of the web hosting service. Along with the amazing ZFS file system, this configuration will raise the speed of your websites significantly. For load-balancing, we also use multiple SSDs for caching purposes only. All of the content that generates increased traffic or creates plenty of reading/writing processes is copied on them promptly, so the load on the primary drives will be reduced, thus the overall performance of all sites hosted with us will be better. This subsequently prolongs the life of the main drives and reduces the potential for a disk failure, that is an additional warranty for the integrity of all content which you upload to your account.