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

SSD with Data Caching in Cloud Website Hosting

Our modern cloud website hosting platform employs exclusively SSD drives, so in case you go for any of our cloud website hosting packages, you'll take advantage of the speed that the drives provide. We no longer use HDDs, so your files, databases and e-mails will all load from ultra fast SSDs. For even greater performance, we use caching SSDs. Multiple drives are used by our system for each file that's accessed often and the data on these drives is dynamically updated to ensure that all the traffic-intensive files load from them. This way, the load on the primary drives is reduced, so we can guarantee exceptional performance for all websites regardless of how frequently they are accessed and avoid a situation where some Internet sites are affected by an excessive number of reading and writing processes generated by others. This setup also increases the lifespan of the primary drives and decreases the chance of disk failure.

SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Hosting

In case you obtain one of our semi-dedicated hosting plans, your sites will be stored on a cloud platform which uses only SSD drives for the storage of files, databases and e-mails. Together with the leading-edge ZFS file system that we use, this setup ensures fast loading speed for any web application hosted on our end. To ensure that the websites of one user will not affect the ones of another one, we also use numerous SSDs as cache - our system identifies files which are accessed more frequently and clones them, so they start loading from the caching drives. The content on the latter is refreshed dynamically and therefore we can balance the load on all the drives, guarantee their extended life-span, lower the risk of disk failures and, of course, provide you with a fast and reliable website hosting service.