A solid-state drive (SSD) is a media which uses flash modules to save information. The SSDs are still fairly new and more pricey when compared to standard hard disk drives (HDD), but they are considerably faster, so they are frequently employed for Operating Systems and apps on both desktops and web hosting servers. An SSD is preferred as it does not have spinning disks which restrict its speed and could cause overheating like it could happen with an HDD. Numerous companies work with SSDs for caching purposes, so any website content which is accessed more often will be kept on this kind of drives, while all the other content will be kept on regular 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 reduce the load on the HDDs resulting from intense reading and writing processes.

SSD with Data Caching in Shared Hosting

The cloud platform where we make shared hosting accounts uses solely SSD drives, so your web applications and static Internet sites will open very quickly. The SSDs are used for files, emails and databases, so no matter if you open a page or check for new email messages through webmail, the content will load right away. In order to ensure even greater speeds, we also use a group of dedicated SSDs that work only as cache. All content that 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 by doing this except for the improved speed is decreased overall load, thus lower chance of hardware failures, and prolonged lifespan of the primary drives, that is one more level of security for any data that you upload to your account.

SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you acquire one of our semi-dedicated hosting packages, your sites will be stored on a cloud platform that employs only SSD drives for the storing of files, databases and e-mails. Together with the cutting-edge ZFS file system that we use, this setup provides lightning-fast loading speed for any web app hosted on our end. To guarantee that the sites of one user will not affect the ones of another, we also use numerous 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 updated dynamically and consequently we can balance the load on all the drives, guarantee their long life-span, minimize the risk of disk failures and, of course, provide a super fast and reliable website hosting service.