A solid-state drive (SSD) is a media which uses flash modules in order to save info. The SSDs remain fairly new and more expensive compared to classic hard disk drives (HDD), yet they're faster, so they are quite often employed for Operating Systems and apps on both home PCs and web servers. An SSD is preferred as it doesn't have spinning disks which restrict its speed and may cause overheating like it may happen with an HDD. Most companies use SSDs for caching purposes, so all content that is accessed more frequently will be held on this type of drives, while all other content will be kept on regular HDDs. The main reason to use this type of a configuration is to balance the cost and overall performance of their hosting platform and to lower the load on the HDDs caused by intense reading and writing processes.

SSD with Data Caching in Shared Website Hosting

In case you host your Internet sites in a shared website hosting account from us, you will definitely notice their exceptional performance. This is because our cloud platform uses exclusively SSD drives for all of the files, e-mail addresses and databases and we don't use HDDs for any part of the website hosting service. Along with the leading-edge ZFS file system, this configuration will boost the speed of your sites tremendously. For load-balancing, we also use multiple SSDs for caching purposes only. All the content which generates more traffic or causes a lot of reading/writing processes is duplicated on them promptly, so that the load on the primary drives will be reduced, thus the overall performance of all websites hosted with us will improve. The latter in turn prolongs the life of the main drives and lessens the potential for a disk failure, which is an additional guarantee for the integrity of any content which you upload to your account.

SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Servers

All semi-dedicated server accounts that we offer are made on a cloud platform which employs exclusively SSD drives. We do not use HDDs anymore, so your sites will load amazingly quickly because we use SSDs for each aspect of the service - files, databases and e-mails. As some users may host websites which could be more frequently visited than others, we also use multiple drives for caching. Our system detects all of the content which is loaded more frequently and duplicates it on these drives so as to load it from them. This setup is used for load-balancing purposes as we ensure that several reading/writing intensive websites will not affect the performance of the rest of the sites which are stored on the same primary drive. Using caching drives also increases the life-span of the main storage SSDs and lowers the potential for disk failures.