A solid-state drive is much faster than any conventional hard-disk drive. It is because an HDD uses spinning disks, which can rotate only so fast and the more data is read and written, the slower and warmer they become, at the same time an SDD works with modules of flash memory, so there are no actually moving parts. The access speeds for an SSD are significantly higher, which makes this type of drives an ideal solution if speed is needed. That's why SSDs are often employed for the Operating System on a PC and for keeping data which is accessed frequently on hosting servers. A large number of service providers also use a combination of both drives, so they save the data on HDDs, but they use a couple of solid-state drives to cache the more often used data and consequently, the data loads faster while the load on the HDDs is lowered because their disks have to spin less often to read and write.

SSD with Data Caching in Shared Web Hosting

If you host your websites in a shared web hosting account with us, you'll notice their exceptional performance. This is because 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 revolutionary ZFS file system, this configuration will increase the speed of your websites substantially. For load-balancing, we also use multiple SSDs for caching purposes only. Any content which generates increased traffic or creates plenty of reading/writing processes is duplicated on them promptly, so that the load on the main drives will be lower, thus the overall performance of all sites hosted on our end will improve. The aforementioned in turn prolongs the life of the primary drives and decreases the chance of a disk failure, that is one more guarantee for the reliability of all content that you upload to your account.