A solid-state drive (SSD) is a media which uses flash modules to store info. The solid-state drives are still fairly new and more pricey than the classic hard disk drives (HDD), but they're much faster, so they are often employed for Operating Systems and apps on both personal computers and web hosting servers. An SSD is preferred because it doesn't have spinning disks that limit its speed and may even cause overheating like it may happen with an HDD. Numerous companies work with SSDs for caching purposes, so all the website content which is accessed more often will be kept on such drives, while all other content will be kept on ordinary HDDs. The reason to use this kind of a configuration is to balance the cost and performance of their Internet hosting platform and to reduce the load on the HDDs caused by countless reading and writing processes.

SSD with Data Caching in Shared Hosting

Our state-of-the-art cloud hosting platform employs solely SSD drives, so if you obtain any of our shared hosting packages, you will benefit from the speed that these drives provide. We no longer use hard drives, so your files, databases and e-mail messages will all open from ultra fast SSDs. For even better performance, we use caching SSDs. A group of drives are used by our system for every file that's accessed often and the data on these drives is dynamically refreshed to ensure that all the traffic-intensive files load from them. In this way, the load on the primary drives is decreased, so we can ensure excellent performance for all sorts of Internet sites irrespective of how many times they are accessed and avoid a situation where some 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 Servers

In case you purchase one of our semi-dedicated server packages, your sites will be stored on a cloud platform which uses only SSD drives for the storage of files, databases and emails. Together with the revolutionary ZFS file system that we use, this setup guarantees very fast loading speed for any web app hosted on our end. To guarantee that the Internet sites of one user don't affect the ones of another one, we also use numerous SSDs as cache - our system detects 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 because of this we can balance the load on all drives, ensure their long life-span, lower the risk of disk failures and, of course, provide a quick and reliable Internet hosting service.