A solid-state drive (SSD) is a media which uses flash modules to store info. The SSDs are still relatively new and more expensive than the standard hard disk drives (HDD), yet they are faster, so they are ordinarily employed for Operating Systems and apps on both home PCs and web hosting servers. An SSD is recommended as it does not have spinning disks which restrict its speed and can cause overheating as it could happen with an HDD. Many companies work with SSDs for caching purposes, so all of the content which is accessed more frequently will be kept on this kind of drives, while all other content will be stored on ordinary HDDs. The main reason to use this kind of a configuration is to balance the price and overall performance of their web hosting platform and to decrease the load on the HDDs resulting from countless reading and writing processes.

SSD with Data Caching in Web Hosting

The cloud platform where we make web hosting accounts uses exclusively SSD drives, so your web apps and static Internet sites will open extremely fast. The SSDs are used for files, email addresses and databases, so regardless of whether you load a page or check for new e-mails through webmail, the content will load immediately. In order to ensure even better speeds, we also use numerous dedicated SSDs that function only as cache. All of the content which generates lots of traffic is copied on them automatically and is later read from them and not from the main storage drives. Needless to say, that content is replaced dynamically for much better efficiency. What we achieve that way aside from the better speed is lowered overall load, thus reduced probability of hardware failures, and prolonged lifespan of the primary drives, that's one more level of security for any info that you upload to your account.

SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you purchase one of our semi-dedicated hosting packages, your websites will be stored on a cloud platform that employs solely SSD drives for the storing of files, databases and email messages. Together with the leading-edge ZFS file system that we use, this setup guarantees extremely fast loading speed for every web app hosted on our end. To guarantee that the sites of one customer won't affect the ones of another one, we also use numerous SSDs as cache - our system finds files which are accessed more frequently and duplicates them, so they start loading from the caching drives. The content on the latter is updated dynamically and because of this we can balance the load on all of the drives, warrant their long lifespan, reduce the risk of disk failures and, of course, offer you a fast and reliable web hosting service.