A solid-state drive (SSD) is a media that uses flash modules to store data. The solid-state drives are still fairly new and more expensive when compared to classic hard disk drives (HDD), yet they're much faster, so they are frequently employed for Operating Systems and applications on both PCs and servers. An SSD is preferred as it doesn't have spinning disks which limit its speed and can even cause overheating as it could happen with an HDD. Numerous companies work with SSDs for caching purposes, so all of the site content that is accessed more often will be kept on this kind of drives, while all other content will be located on standard HDDs. The reason to use such a configuration is to balance the price and overall performance of their hosting platform and to lower the load on the HDDs resulting from numerous reading and writing processes.

SSD with Data Caching in Shared Website Hosting

If you host your Internet sites in a shared website hosting account with us, you'll notice their fantastic performance. This is because our cloud platform uses solely SSD drives for all the files, email addresses and databases and we do not use HDDs for any part of the Internet hosting service. Together with the revolutionary ZFS file system, this setup will increase the speed of your Internet sites substantially. For load-balancing, we also use multiple SSDs for caching purposes only. All of the content which generates increased traffic or creates plenty 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 improve. The aforementioned subsequently prolongs the life of the main drives and reduces the potential for a disk failure, which is a further warranty for the integrity of any content which you upload to your account.

SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Servers

Provided you want speed and excellent performance for your Internet sites, our semi-dedicated server accounts shall be a very suitable solution since they're made on a cloud platform which uses SSDs for every part of the service - email addresses, databases and files. This way, each website that you host here will load fast. Similar to other providers, we also use SSDs for caching, but since all storage drives are solid-state ones, you will be able to take advantage of the high performance all the time and whatever the type of your websites. The caching drives are used for load-balancing and all the frequently accessed content is copied to them, which both decreases the load and guarantees the excellent performance of all sites which load from the primary drives. The lifespan of the latter will also be increased considering that there'll be a lot less reading and writing processes on them.