A solid-state drive (SSD) is a media which uses flash modules in order to store data. The solid-state drives are still fairly new and more expensive than the classic hard disk drives (HDD), but they are considerably faster, so they are often used for Operating Systems and apps on both personal computers and hosting servers. An SSD is recommended as it doesn't have spinning disks that restrict its speed and can even cause overheating like it may happen with an HDD. Lots of companies use SSDs for caching purposes, so any website content that is accessed more often will be stored on this kind of drives, while all other content will be located on regular HDDs. The reason to use this type of a configuration is to balance the price and overall performance of their hosting platform and to reduce the load on the HDDs resulting from intense reading and writing processes.

SSD with Data Caching in Shared Hosting

In case you host your websites in a shared hosting account with our company, you'll notice their excellent performance. The reason is that our cloud platform uses exclusively SSD drives for all the files, e-mail addresses and databases and we don't use HDDs for any part of the website hosting service. In addition to the state-of-the-art ZFS file system, this setup will boost the speed of your sites significantly. For load-balancing, we also use numerous SSDs for caching purposes only. All content that generates increased traffic or creates plenty of reading/writing processes is duplicated on them promptly, so that the load on the primary drives will be lower, thus the overall performance of all websites hosted on our end will be better. The abovementioned subsequently prolongs the life of the primary drives and lessens the chance of a disk failure, that is another warranty for the integrity of any content that you upload to your account.

SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Hosting

All semi-dedicated hosting accounts that we provide are created on a cloud platform that employs solely SSD drives. We do not use HDDs any longer, so your Internet sites will load extremely fast as we employ SSDs for every part of the service - files, databases and e-mail addresses. Considering that some users may host Internet sites that can be more frequently visited than others, we also use a number of drives for caching. Our system finds all of the content that is accessed more often and duplicates it on these drives in order to load it from them. This setup is used for load-balancing purposes as we guarantee that several reading/writing intensive websites will not affect the performance of the rest of the sites that are stored on the very same primary drive. Using caching drives also increases the life-span of the main storage SSDs and reduces the possibility of disk failures.