A solid-state drive (SSD) is a media that uses flash modules in order to save info. The solid-state drives are still relatively new and more expensive compared to standard hard disk drives (HDD), however they are much faster, so they are ordinarily used for Operating Systems and applications on both PCs and web hosting servers. An SSD is preferred because it does not have spinning disks that limit its speed and could cause overheating like it may happen with an HDD. Numerous companies use SSDs for caching purposes, so all of the site content that is accessed more often will be held on such drives, while all other content will be kept on regular HDDs. The reason to use this type of a configuration is to balance the price and overall performance of their web 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

Our top-notch cloud Internet hosting platform employs solely SSD drives, so in case you get any of our shared website hosting plans, you will take full advantage of the speed that these drives provide. We no longer use hard disk drives, so your files, databases and e-mails will all open from high-speed SSDs. For even better performance, we also use caching solid-state drives. A group of drives are used by our system for every file that is accessed more often and the data on these drives is dynamically updated to ensure that all the traffic-intensive files load from them. That way, the load on the main drives is lowered, so we can ensure perfect performance for all kinds of websites regardless of how frequently they're accessed and prevent a situation where some Internet sites are affected by an excessive number of reading and writing processes generated by others. This setup also improves the lifespan of the main drives and decreases the possibility of disk failure.

SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Hosting

In case you obtain one of our semi-dedicated hosting packages, your websites will be stored on a cloud platform which employs exclusively SSD drives for the storing of files, databases and e-mail messages. Along with the leading-edge ZFS file system that we use, this setup provides extremely fast loading speed for any web application hosted on our end. To guarantee that the Internet sites of one user won't affect the ones of another one, we also use numerous SSDs as cache - our system identifies files which are accessed more frequently and clones them, so that they start loading from the caching drives. The content on the latter is updated dynamically and therefore we can balance the load on all drives, warrant their extended lifespan, minimize the risk of disk failures and, of course, provide a super fast and reliable web hosting service.