A solid-state drive (SSD) is a media which uses flash modules in order to store info. The solid-state drives are still relatively new and more expensive when compared to classic hard disk drives (HDD), yet they are considerably faster, so they are frequently used for Operating Systems and applications on both home computer systems and web servers. An SSD is recommended because it does not have spinning disks that restrict its speed and can cause overheating as it could happen with an HDD. Many companies work with SSDs for caching purposes, so all site content which is accessed more frequently will be kept on this type of drives, while all the other content will be kept on regular HDDs. The main reason to use this type of a configuration is to balance the cost and performance of their website hosting platform and to decrease the load on the HDDs resulting from numerous reading and writing processes.

SSD with Data Caching in Website Hosting

If you host your Internet sites in a website hosting account with our company, you will notice their exceptional performance. The reason is that our cloud platform uses exclusively SSD drives for all the files, email addresses and databases and we do not use HDDs for any part of the web hosting service. In addition to the innovative ZFS file system, this setup will raise the speed of your sites tremendously. For load-balancing, we also use multiple SSDs for caching purposes only. All of the content that generates more traffic or creates a lot of reading/writing processes is duplicated on them automatically, so that the load on the primary drives will be lower, thus the overall performance of all sites hosted on our end will improve. This in turn prolongs the life of the main drives and decreases the potential for a disk failure, that is one more warranty for the reliability of any content which you upload to your account.

SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Hosting

In case you buy one of our semi-dedicated hosting packages, your sites will be stored on a cloud platform that employs solely SSD drives for the storing of files, databases and email messages. Along with the cutting-edge ZFS file system that we use, this setup ensures fast loading speed for every web app hosted on our end. To guarantee that the Internet sites of one user don't affect the ones of another, we also use multiple SSDs as cache - our system detects files which are accessed more frequently and copies them, so they start loading from the caching drives. The content on the latter is updated dynamically and because of this we can balance the load on all the drives, ensure their long lifespan, minimize the risk of disk failures and, of course, supply a quick and reliable website hosting service.