A solid-state drive (SSD) is a media which uses flash modules in order to store data. The solid-state drives remain relatively new and more expensive than the standard hard disk drives (HDD), but they're faster, so they are frequently used for Operating Systems and applications on both home computer systems and servers. An SSD is preferred as it does not have spinning disks which limit its speed and may even cause overheating as it may happen with an HDD. Numerous companies work with SSDs for caching purposes, so all of the site content that is accessed more frequently will be stored on such drives, while all the other content will be located on regular HDDs. The reason to use such a configuration is to balance the price and overall performance of their hosting platform and to decrease the load on the HDDs caused by numerous reading and writing processes.

SSD with Data Caching in Web Hosting

The cloud platform where we make web hosting accounts uses only SSD drives, so your web applications and static websites will open very quickly. The SSDs are used for files, emails and databases, so no matter if you load a page or check for new email messages with webmail, the content will load right away. So as to offer even better speeds, we also use a number of dedicated SSDs which function only as cache. All content that generates lots of traffic is copied on them automatically and is afterwards read from them and not from the primary storage drives. Needless to say, that content is replaced dynamically for better efficiency. What we achieve in this way except for the better speed is lowered overall load, thus decreased chance of hardware failures, and longer lifespan of the main drives, that's one more level of security for any data that you upload to your account.

SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Hosting

In case you acquire one of our semi-dedicated hosting plans, your Internet sites will be stored on a cloud platform which employs exclusively SSD drives for the storage of files, databases and emails. In addition to the advanced ZFS file system that we use, this setup guarantees fast loading speed for each web app hosted on our end. To guarantee that the sites of one user will not affect the ones of another one, we also use numerous SSDs as cache - our system identifies files which are accessed more frequently and copies them, so that they start loading from the caching drives. The content on the latter is updated dynamically and for that reason we can balance the load on all drives, guarantee their long life-span, lower the risk of disk failures and, of course, provide you with a fast and reliable website hosting service.