A solid-state drive (SSD) is a media that uses flash modules to store info. The SSDs are still relatively new and more pricey when compared to classic hard disk drives (HDD), but they are faster, so they are ordinarily used for Operating Systems and applications on both home computer systems and web hosting servers. An SSD is recommended as it doesn't have spinning disks which restrict its speed and may even cause overheating like it may happen with an HDD. A large number of companies work with SSDs for caching purposes, so all of the content that is accessed more often will be kept on this kind of drives, while all other content will be stored on regular HDDs. The main 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 caused by intense reading and writing processes.

SSD with Data Caching in Cloud Website Hosting

In case you host your websites in a cloud website hosting account with our company, you will notice their excellent performance. This is because our cloud platform uses solely SSD drives for all files, e-mail addresses and databases and we do not use HDDs for any part of the Internet hosting service. Together with the cutting-edge ZFS file system, this setup will increase the speed of your Internet sites significantly. For load-balancing, we also use multiple SSDs for caching purposes only. Any content which generates more traffic or causes lots of reading/writing processes is copied on them instantly, so that the load on the main drives will be reduced, thus the overall performance of all sites hosted on our end will improve. The aforementioned in turn prolongs the life of the main drives and lessens the chance of a disk failure, that is a further warranty for the reliability 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 uses exclusively SSD drives. We don't use HDDs any longer, so your Internet sites will load very quickly since we use SSDs for each aspect of the service - files, databases and e-mail addresses. Considering that some users may host sites that could be more frequently visited than others, we also use many drives for caching. Our system identifies all of the content that is accessed more often and clones it on these drives so as to load it from them. This configuration is used for load-balancing purposes as we guarantee that several reading/writing intensive Internet sites will not influence the performance of the rest of the sites which are stored on the same main drive. Using caching drives also raises the lifespan of the main storage SSDs and lowers the probability of disk failures.