A solid-state drive (SSD) is a media which uses flash modules to save data. The SSDs are still fairly new and more expensive than the standard hard disk drives (HDD), but they're faster, so they are ordinarily employed for Operating Systems and apps on both PCs and servers. An SSD is recommended as it does not have spinning disks which restrict its speed and can even cause overheating as it may happen with an HDD. A lot of companies use SSDs for caching purposes, so any website content which is accessed more often will be kept on this type of drives, while all other content will be stored on ordinary HDDs. The reason to use this type of a setup is to balance the cost and overall performance of their website hosting platform and to decrease the load on the HDDs resulting from countless reading and writing processes.

SSD with Data Caching in Shared Web Hosting

Our innovative cloud website hosting platform uses exclusively SSD drives, so if you purchase any of our shared web hosting solutions, you'll benefit from the speed that the drives provide. We no longer use hard disks, so your files, databases and e-mails will all load from high-speed SSDs. For even greater performance, we also use caching SSDs. A group of drives are used by our system for every file which is accessed often and the data on these drives is dynamically refreshed to ensure that all traffic-intensive files load from them. In this way, the load on the primary drives is lowered, so we can guarantee exceptional performance for all sorts of sites regardless of how many times they are accessed and avoid a situation where some Internet sites are affected by too many reading and writing processes generated by others. This setup also improves the lifespan of the primary drives and reduces the risk of disk failure.

SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Servers

In case you acquire one of our semi-dedicated server packages, your Internet sites will be stored on a cloud platform which uses only SSD drives for the storing of files, databases and e-mail messages. In addition to the cutting-edge ZFS file system that we use, this configuration provides very fast loading speed for each web application hosted on our end. To ensure that the Internet sites of one user do not affect the ones of another one, we also use multiple SSDs as cache - our system finds 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, guarantee their extended life-span, minimize the risk of disk failures and, of course, supply a quick and reliable web hosting service.