A solid-state drive (SSD) is a media which uses flash modules in order to save data. The solid-state drives remain relatively new and more pricey than the classic hard disk drives (HDD), yet they are much faster, so they are ordinarily used for Operating Systems and apps on both PCs and web hosting servers. An SSD is recommended because it doesn't have spinning disks that limit its speed and could cause overheating like it may happen with an HDD. A lot of companies work with SSDs for caching purposes, so all the content which is accessed more frequently will be kept on such drives, while all other content will be located on ordinary HDDs. The reason to use this type of a setup is to balance the cost and overall performance of their website hosting platform and to minimize the load on the HDDs resulting from numerous reading and writing processes.

SSD with Data Caching in Shared Web Hosting

In case you host your sites in a shared web hosting account from our company, you'll definitely notice their fantastic performance. This is because our cloud platform uses exclusively SSD drives for all of the files, e-mails and databases and we do not use HDDs for any part of the Internet hosting service. In addition to the revolutionary ZFS file system, this configuration will increase the speed of your sites substantially. For load-balancing, we also use a number of SSDs for caching purposes only. All the content which generates more traffic or causes a lot of reading/writing processes is duplicated on them promptly, so the load on the primary drives will be lower, thus the overall performance of all Internet sites hosted with us will be better. The abovementioned in turn prolongs the life of the main drives and decreases the chance of a disk failure, which is another warranty for the integrity of any content which you upload to your account.

SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you get one of our semi-dedicated server plans, your sites will be stored on a cloud platform which employs exclusively SSD drives for the storage of files, databases and emails. Together with the advanced ZFS file system that we use, this setup provides lightning-fast loading speed for each web application hosted on our end. To ensure that the Internet sites of one user do not affect the ones of another, we also use multiple SSDs as cache - our system detects files which are accessed more frequently and clones them, so that they start loading from the caching drives. The content on the latter is refreshed dynamically and therefore we can balance the load on all the drives, guarantee their extended lifespan, decrease the risk of disk failures and, of course, supply a fast and reliable web hosting service.