A solid-state drive (SSD) is a media that uses flash modules in order to save info. The solid-state drives remain fairly new and more pricey when compared to standard hard disk drives (HDD), but they're considerably faster, so they are often used for Operating Systems and apps on both home PCs and servers. An SSD is recommended because it doesn't have spinning disks which limit its speed and could cause overheating like it may happen with an HDD. Most companies work with SSDs for caching purposes, so all website content which is accessed more frequently will be held on this kind of drives, while all the other content will be located on regular HDDs. The reason to use this type of a configuration is to balance the cost and performance of their hosting platform and to lower the load on the HDDs resulting from numerous reading and writing processes.

SSD with Data Caching in Cloud Web Hosting

If you host your Internet sites in a cloud web hosting account from our company, you will notice their exceptional performance. This is because our cloud platform uses only SSD drives for all files, e-mail addresses and databases and we don't use HDDs for any part of the website hosting service. In addition to the cutting-edge ZFS file system, this setup will increase the speed of your Internet sites considerably. For load-balancing, we also use a number of SSDs for caching purposes only. All the content which generates more traffic or causes plenty of reading/writing processes is copied on them instantly, so that the load on the main drives will be lower, thus the overall performance of all sites hosted on our end will improve. This in turn prolongs the life of the primary drives and reduces the chance of a disk failure, which is another guarantee for the reliability of any content that you upload to your account.

SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you subscribe for one of our semi-dedicated hosting solutions, we'll save your content on SSD drives and this is valid not just for the files, but also for all databases and e-mails. Thus, your script-driven applications and webmail will load speedily. We employ dedicated SSDs for caching too. Traffic-intensive site content is cloned automatically on these drives, so we ensure that several heavy Internet sites which generate a large amount of reading and writing processes shall not impact the other websites that share the exact same drive. By reduction of the overall load we also raise the lifespan of the primary storage disks and lower the chance of a disk failure, so by employing SSD drives for caching purposes, we add one more level of security for your content.