A solid-state drive (SSD) is a media which uses flash modules to store info. The solid-state drives remain relatively new and more expensive when compared to standard hard disk drives (HDD), but they are faster, so they are frequently used for Operating Systems and applications on both PCs and web servers. An SSD is recommended as it doesn't have spinning disks which restrict its speed and can even cause overheating like it may happen with an HDD. A number of companies employ SSDs for caching purposes, so any website content which is accessed more frequently will be stored on this kind of drives, while all other content will be located on standard HDDs. The main reason to use this type of a setup is to balance the cost and performance of their Internet hosting platform and to reduce the load on the HDDs caused by intense reading and writing processes.

SSD with Data Caching in Cloud Website Hosting

If you host your sites in a cloud website hosting account with us, you will notice their excellent performance. The reason is that our cloud platform uses solely SSD drives for all of the files, e-mails and databases and we do not use HDDs for any part of the web hosting service. Together with the leading-edge ZFS file system, this configuration will boost the speed of your sites considerably. For load-balancing, we also use multiple SSDs for caching purposes only. All of the content which generates more traffic or causes plenty of reading/writing processes is copied on them promptly, so the load on the primary drives will be reduced, thus the overall performance of all Internet sites hosted with us will be better. This in turn prolongs the life of the main drives and lessens the potential for a disk failure, which is an additional warranty for the reliability of all content that you upload to your account.

SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you purchase one of our semi-dedicated hosting plans, your sites will be stored on a cloud platform that employs only SSD drives for the storing of files, databases and e-mails. In addition to the advanced ZFS file system that we use, this setup provides lightning-fast loading speed for every web application hosted on our end. To ensure that the sites of one customer don't affect the ones of another, we also use numerous SSDs as cache - our system discovers files that are accessed more frequently and copies them, so that they start loading from the caching drives. The content on the latter is updated dynamically and therefore we can balance the load on all the drives, guarantee their extended life-span, minimize the risk of disk failures and, of course, provide a super fast and reliable website hosting service.