A solid-state drive (SSD) is a media that uses flash modules to save data. The solid-state drives remain fairly new and more pricey when compared to classic hard disk drives (HDD), but they are much faster, so they are ordinarily employed for Operating Systems and apps on both desktops and web servers. An SSD is preferred as it doesn't have spinning disks which restrict its speed and may even cause overheating as it could happen with an HDD. Lots of companies use SSDs for caching purposes, so all site content that is accessed more frequently will be kept on such drives, while all other content will be held on regular HDDs. The main reason to use such a configuration is to balance the cost and overall performance of their web hosting platform and to lower the load on the HDDs resulting from countless reading and writing processes.

SSD with Data Caching in Cloud Hosting

In case you host your sites in a cloud hosting account from us, you'll definitely notice their excellent performance. The reason is that our cloud platform uses only SSD drives for all the files, e-mail addresses and databases and we do not use HDDs for any part of the hosting service. In addition to the cutting-edge ZFS file system, this configuration will increase the speed of your sites drastically. For load-balancing, we also use a number of SSDs for caching purposes only. All the content that generates more traffic or causes plenty of reading/writing processes is duplicated on them instantly, so that the load on the primary drives will be lower, thus the overall performance of all Internet sites hosted with us will improve. The aforementioned subsequently prolongs the life of the primary drives and decreases the chance of a disk failure, that is a further guarantee for the reliability of any content which you upload to your account.

SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Servers

In case you purchase one of our semi-dedicated server plans, your Internet sites will be stored on a cloud platform which uses only SSD drives for the storage of files, databases and email messages. In addition to the leading-edge ZFS file system that we use, this configuration provides extremely fast loading speed for any web app hosted on our end. To guarantee that the sites of one user will not affect the ones of another one, we also use a number of SSDs as cache - our system discovers files which are accessed more frequently and duplicates them, so that they start loading from the caching drives. The content on the latter is refreshed dynamically and for that reason we can balance the load on all the drives, warrant their long lifespan, minimize the risk of disk failures and, of course, provide a quick and reliable Internet hosting service.