A solid-state drive (SSD) is a media which uses flash modules to save data. The SSDs are still fairly new and more expensive when compared to standard hard disk drives (HDD), yet they are much faster, so they are ordinarily used for Operating Systems and applications on both desktops and servers. An SSD is preferred as it doesn't have spinning disks which restrict its speed and could cause overheating like it could happen with an HDD. Most companies use SSDs for caching purposes, so all the website content that is accessed more often will be held on this kind of drives, while all other content will be located on regular HDDs. The main reason to use such a configuration is to balance the price and overall performance of their hosting platform and to decrease the load on the HDDs caused by countless reading and writing processes.

SSD with Data Caching in Shared Website Hosting

The cloud platform where we make shared website hosting accounts uses only SSD drives, so your web apps and static sites will open very quickly. The SSDs are used for files, emails and databases, so no matter if you open a page or check for new email messages using webmail, the content will load quickly. So as to ensure even better speeds, we also use numerous dedicated SSDs that work only as cache. Any content which generates lots of traffic is copied on them automatically and is later on read from them and not from the main storage drives. Of course, that content is replaced dynamically for improved efficiency. What we achieve this way in addition to the better speed is lowered overall load, thus lower potential for hardware failures, and prolonged lifespan of the main drives, that's one more level of protection for any info that you upload to your account.

SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you purchase one of our semi-dedicated hosting packages, your Internet sites will be stored on a cloud platform that uses solely SSD drives for the storage of files, databases and emails. Along with the cutting-edge ZFS file system that we use, this configuration provides fast loading speed for any 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 a number of SSDs as cache - our system finds files which are accessed more frequently and duplicates 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 drives, ensure their long life-span, reduce the risk of disk failures and, of course, provide a quick and reliable website hosting service.