A solid-state drive (SSD) is a media which uses flash modules to store information. The solid-state drives remain fairly new and more pricey when compared to classic hard disk drives (HDD), but they're faster, so they are often used for Operating Systems and apps on both personal computers and web servers. An SSD is preferred as it doesn't have spinning disks which limit its speed and may even cause overheating like it may happen with an HDD. A large number of companies employ SSDs for caching purposes, so all of the site content which is accessed more often will be stored on such drives, while all the other content will be stored on conventional HDDs. The reason to use this type of a configuration is to balance the cost and overall performance of their web hosting platform and to reduce the load on the HDDs resulting from intense reading and writing processes.

SSD with Data Caching in Cloud Hosting

If you host your Internet sites in a cloud hosting account with us, you will 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 do not use HDDs for any part of the website hosting service. Together with the amazing ZFS file system, this configuration will raise the speed of your sites significantly. For load-balancing, we also use a number of SSDs for caching purposes only. All content that generates increased traffic or causes a lot of reading/writing processes is copied on them promptly, so that the load on the main drives will be lower, thus the overall performance of all sites hosted on our end will be better. The latter subsequently prolongs the life of the primary drives and reduces the potential for a disk failure, that is another warranty for the reliability of any content which you upload to your account.

SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you purchase one of our semi-dedicated hosting packages, your sites will be stored on a cloud platform which employs solely SSD drives for the storing of files, databases and e-mails. Along with the advanced ZFS file system that we use, this setup provides lightning-fast loading speed for each web app hosted on our end. To ensure that the websites of one customer do not affect the ones of another one, we also use a number of SSDs as cache - our system detects files that are accessed more frequently and clones them, so that they start loading from the caching drives. The content on the latter is refreshed dynamically and consequently we can balance the load on all the drives, ensure their long lifespan, decrease the risk of disk failures and, of course, provide a fast and reliable website hosting service.