A solid-state drive (SSD) is a media that uses flash modules to save info. The solid-state drives remain fairly new and more pricey when compared to standard hard disk drives (HDD), but they are much faster, so they are ordinarily used for Operating Systems and applications on both home computer systems and servers. An SSD is preferred because it doesn't have spinning disks that limit its speed and can cause overheating like it could happen with an HDD. Many companies work with SSDs for caching purposes, so all website content that is accessed more frequently will be held on this type of drives, while all other content will be kept on conventional HDDs. The reason to use this type of a setup is to balance the price and overall performance of their web hosting platform and to lower the load on the HDDs resulting from intense reading and writing processes.

SSD with Data Caching in Cloud Hosting

The cloud platform where we create cloud hosting accounts uses only SSD drives, so your web applications and static websites will open very fast. The SSDs are used for files, e-mail addresses and databases, so regardless if you open a page or check for new e-mails using webmail, the content will load immediately. To ensure even greater speeds, we also use a number of dedicated SSDs that function only as cache. All of the content that generates a lot of traffic is copied on them automatically and is later read from them and not from the primary storage drives. Needless to say, that content is replaced dynamically for improved efficiency. What we achieve this way in addition to the better speed is decreased overall load, thus lower chance of hardware failures, and extended lifespan of the main drives, which is one more level of security for any data that you upload to your account.

SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you acquire one of our semi-dedicated server packages, your websites will be stored on a cloud platform which uses solely SSD drives for the storing of files, databases and e-mails. Along with the advanced ZFS file system that we use, this configuration guarantees extremely fast loading speed for any web application hosted on our end. To ensure that the websites of one user will not affect the ones of another one, we also use numerous SSDs as cache - our system detects files that are accessed more frequently and copies them, so they start loading from the caching drives. The content on the latter is refreshed dynamically and therefore we can balance the load on all the drives, ensure their long lifespan, decrease the risk of disk failures and, of course, provide you with a quick and reliable web hosting service.