A solid-state drive (SSD) is a media which uses flash modules in order to store data. The SSDs remain relatively new and more expensive compared to classic hard disk drives (HDD), however they are much faster, so they are often employed for Operating Systems and applications on both home PCs and web servers. An SSD is preferred as it does not have spinning disks which limit its speed and may cause overheating like it could happen with an HDD. Lots of companies employ SSDs for caching purposes, so all of the website content that is accessed more often will be held on this type of drives, while all the other content will be located on standard HDDs. The reason to use this kind of a setup is to balance the cost and performance of their web hosting platform and to decrease the load on the HDDs caused by countless reading and writing processes.

SSD with Data Caching in Shared Website Hosting

In case you host your websites in a shared website hosting account from our company, you'll notice their exceptional performance. This is because our cloud platform uses exclusively SSD drives for all the files, email addresses and databases and we don't use HDDs for any part of the Internet hosting service. Together with the cutting-edge ZFS file system, this configuration will increase the speed of your websites tremendously. For load-balancing, we also use a number of SSDs for caching purposes only. All the content that generates increased traffic or creates a lot of reading/writing processes is duplicated on them promptly, so that the load on the main drives will be reduced, thus the overall performance of all websites hosted with us will be better. The aforementioned in turn prolongs the life of the main drives and lessens the potential for a disk failure, which is a further warranty for the reliability of all content that you upload to your account.

SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you register for one of our semi-dedicated hosting solutions, we'll keep your content on SSD drives and this is valid not just for the files, but also for all databases and e-mail messages. Thus, your script-driven apps and webmail will load speedily. We employ dedicated SSDs for caching too. Traffic-intensive website content is duplicated automatically on these drives, so we make certain that a couple of heavy sites that generate plenty of reading and writing processes won't impact the other websites which share the same drive. By reducing the overall load we also boost the lifespan of the primary storage drives and reduce the probability of a disk failure, so by using SSD drives for caching purposes, we add one more level of stability for your website content.