A solid-state drive (SSD) is a media which uses flash modules in order to store info. The SSDs remain fairly new and more pricey when compared to classic hard disk drives (HDD), but they are faster, so they are ordinarily employed for Operating Systems and apps on both home PCs and hosting servers. An SSD is preferred as it doesn't have spinning disks that restrict its speed and can cause overheating as it may happen with an HDD. Most companies work with SSDs for caching purposes, so all website content which is accessed more frequently will be located on this kind of drives, while all other content will be located on conventional HDDs. The main reason to use such a configuration is to balance the cost and performance of their hosting platform and to reduce the load on the HDDs caused by countless reading and writing processes.

SSD with Data Caching in Website Hosting

If you host your Internet sites in a website hosting account with us, you will notice their fantastic performance. This is because our cloud platform uses solely SSD drives for all the files, email addresses and databases and we do not use HDDs for any part of the website hosting service. Along with the cutting-edge ZFS file system, this setup will raise the speed of your websites substantially. For load-balancing, we also use multiple SSDs for caching purposes only. All the content which generates increased traffic or causes a lot of reading/writing processes is copied on them automatically, so the load on the main drives will be lower, thus the overall performance of all websites hosted on our end will be better. The aforementioned in turn prolongs the life of the primary drives and decreases the possibility of a disk failure, which is an additional warranty for the reliability of any content which you upload to your account.

SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you get one of our semi-dedicated hosting packages, your sites will be stored on a cloud platform that uses solely SSD drives for the storing of files, databases and emails. Along with the revolutionary ZFS file system that we use, this setup ensures fast loading speed for every web app hosted on our end. To ensure that the sites of one customer do not affect the ones of another one, we also use a number of SSDs as cache - our system detects files that are accessed more frequently and duplicates them, so they start loading from the caching drives. The content on the latter is refreshed dynamically and as a result we can balance the load on all drives, warrant their extended lifespan, lower the risk of disk failures and, of course, supply a fast and reliable Internet hosting service.