A solid-state drive is noticeably quicker than any conventional hard-disk drive. This is because an HDD employs spinning disks, that can rotate only so fast and the more information is read and written, the slower and hotter they become, whereas an SDD uses modules of flash memory, therefore there are no actually moving components. The access speeds for an SSD are much higher, which makes these drives a recommended solution any time speed is needed. That's why SSDs are often employed for the Operating System on a PC and for keeping data that is used regularly on web servers. Numerous providers also use a combination of both drives, so they keep the data on HDDs, but they use one or more solid-state drives to cache the more often used data and because of this, the data loads much quicker while the load on the HDDs is reduced since their disks need to spin less frequently in order to read and write.

SSD with Data Caching in Shared Website Hosting

If you host your websites in a shared website hosting account with us, you'll definitely notice their excellent performance. This is because our cloud platform uses exclusively SSD drives for all the files, e-mails and databases and we do not use HDDs for any part of the web hosting service. Along with the innovative ZFS file system, this configuration will boost the speed of your sites substantially. For load-balancing, we also use a number of SSDs for caching purposes only. Any content that generates increased traffic or creates a lot of reading/writing processes is duplicated on them promptly, so the load on the main drives will be lower, thus the overall performance of all sites hosted with us will improve. The abovementioned subsequently prolongs the life of the main drives and decreases the potential for a disk failure, that is a further guarantee for the integrity of any content that you upload to your account.