A solid-state drive (SSD) is a media that uses flash modules in order to store info. The solid-state drives are still relatively new and more pricey than the classic hard disk drives (HDD), yet they are considerably faster, so they are frequently used for Operating Systems and applications on both PCs and servers. An SSD is preferred because it doesn't have spinning disks which limit its speed and can cause overheating like it could happen with an HDD. A number of companies work with SSDs for caching purposes, so all of the content that is accessed more frequently will be kept on this kind of drives, while all other content will be kept on conventional HDDs. The reason to use such a setup is to balance the price and overall performance of their Internet hosting platform and to reduce the load on the HDDs resulting from numerous reading and writing processes.

SSD with Data Caching in Web Hosting

We use exclusively SSDs on our state-of-the-art cloud hosting platform and we've eliminated all HDDs on our production servers in order to provide lightning-fast loading speeds for every part of our services - files, e-mails and databases. That way, all of the content which you upload to your web hosting account will be accessible very fast. In order to enhance the performance of the sites hosted on our end even further, we also use a number of SSDs that work solely as cache - our system saves frequently accessed content on them and updates it instantly. We use such a setup to ensure that traffic-intensive Internet sites will never influence the performance of the other Internet sites hosted on our platform and this way all other websites can also take advantage of the speed which the SSD drives provide. Furthermore, due to the fact that the load on the main drives is reduced, their life-span shall be longer, that's one more warranty for the safety and stability of your info.

SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Servers

In case you purchase one of our semi-dedicated server plans, your Internet sites will be stored on a cloud platform which employs exclusively SSD drives for the storing of files, databases and e-mails. Along with the leading-edge ZFS file system that we use, this setup provides fast loading speed for any web application hosted on our end. To ensure that the sites of one customer do not affect the ones of another one, we also use a number of SSDs as cache - our system discovers files which are accessed more frequently and duplicates them, so they start loading from the caching drives. The content on the latter is updated dynamically and as a result we can balance the load on all the drives, guarantee their extended life-span, minimize the risk of disk failures and, of course, offer you a fast and reliable website hosting service.