A solid-state drive (SSD) is a media which uses flash modules in order to store data. The SSDs are still fairly new and more pricey than the classic hard disk drives (HDD), yet they're much faster, so they are frequently used for Operating Systems and applications on both home PCs and web servers. An SSD is recommended as it doesn't have spinning disks which restrict its speed and may even cause overheating like it may happen with an HDD. Lots of companies work with SSDs for caching purposes, so all website content which is accessed more frequently will be stored on this kind of drives, while all the other content will be held on standard HDDs. The reason to use such a configuration is to balance the cost and performance of their Internet hosting platform and to decrease the load on the HDDs caused by intense reading and writing processes.

SSD with Data Caching in Hosting

The cloud platform where we make hosting accounts uses only SSD drives, so your web apps and static sites will load very quickly. The SSDs are used for files, e-mail addresses and databases, so regardless if you open a page or check for new messages using webmail, the content will load promptly. So as to ensure even higher speeds, we also use numerous dedicated SSDs that work only as cache. Any content that generates lots of traffic is copied on them automatically and is later read from them and not from the main storage drives. Of course, that content is replaced dynamically for much better efficiency. What we achieve this way in addition to the improved speed is decreased overall load, thus lower chance of hardware failures, and prolonged lifespan of the main drives, which is one more level of protection for any info that you upload to your account.

SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Hosting

In case you buy one of our semi-dedicated hosting plans, your websites will be stored on a cloud platform that uses only SSD drives for the storing of files, databases and emails. In addition to the advanced ZFS file system that we use, this setup provides lightning-fast loading speed for each web app hosted on our end. To guarantee that the websites of one user will not affect the ones of another, we also use multiple SSDs as cache - our system identifies files that are accessed more frequently and clones them, so they start loading from the caching drives. The content on the latter is updated dynamically and consequently we can balance the load on all of the drives, warrant their extended life-span, decrease the risk of disk failures and, of course, offer you a fast and reliable website hosting service.