A solid-state drive is considerably quicker than any conventional hard-disk drive. It is because an HDD works by using rotating disks, that can rotate only so fast and the more data is read and written, the slower and hotter they become, at the same time an SDD takes advantage of modules of flash memory, so there are no physically moving components. The access speeds for an SSD are much higher, which makes this kind of drives the right solution if speed is needed. Because of this SSDs are in many cases used for the Operating System on a desktop or notebook and for saving data that's used regularly on web servers. Many providers also use a combination of the two drives, so they keep the data on hard drives, but they use a couple of solid-state drives so as to cache the more often used data and for that reason, the data loads quicker while the load on the HDDs is lowered because their disks need to spin less frequently in order to read and write.

SSD with Data Caching in Cloud Website Hosting

In case you host your websites in a cloud website hosting account with us, you'll definitely notice their excellent performance. The reason is that our cloud platform uses only SSD drives for all files, emails and databases and we don't use HDDs for any part of the hosting service. In addition to the state-of-the-art ZFS file system, this configuration will raise the speed of your sites tremendously. For load-balancing, we also use multiple SSDs for caching purposes only. Any content which generates more traffic or causes a lot of reading/writing processes is copied on them promptly, so that the load on the primary drives will be reduced, thus the overall performance of all Internet sites hosted on our end will be better. The latter in turn prolongs the life of the main drives and lessens the possibility of a disk failure, that is an additional guarantee for the integrity of any content which you upload to your account.