A solid-state drive (SSD) is a media which uses flash modules so as to save data. The SSDs remain relatively new and more expensive than the standard hard disk drives (HDD), but they are much faster, so they are quite often used for Operating Systems and applications on both desktops and web servers. An SSD is recommended because it doesn't have spinning disks which limit its speed and may even cause overheating like it may happen with an HDD. A large number of companies employ SSDs for caching purposes, so all of the content which is accessed more frequently will be kept on this kind of drives, while all other content will be located on standard HDDs. The main reason to use this type of a configuration is to balance the price and overall 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 Shared Web Hosting

The cloud platform where we create shared web hosting accounts uses only SSD drives, so your web apps and static Internet sites will open very fast. The SSDs are used for files, e-mails and databases, so no matter if you open a page or check for new e-mail messages through webmail, the content will load very quickly. To ensure even greater speeds, we also use a group of dedicated SSDs which work only as cache. All of the 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 improved efficiency. What we achieve in this way aside from the better speed is lowered overall load, thus lower potential for hardware failures, and prolonged lifespan of the main drives, that is one more level of security for any information that you upload to your account.

SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you buy one of our semi-dedicated server plans, your websites will be stored on a cloud platform which uses only SSD drives for the storage of files, databases and e-mail messages. Together with the cutting-edge ZFS file system that we use, this setup guarantees lightning-fast loading speed for any web app hosted on our end. To ensure that the sites of one customer don't affect the ones of another one, we also use numerous SSDs as cache - our system discovers files that are accessed more frequently and clones them, so that they start loading from the caching drives. The content on the latter is refreshed dynamically and consequently we can balance the load on all of the drives, warrant their extended lifespan, decrease the risk of disk failures and, of course, provide you with a quick and reliable website hosting service.