A solid-state drive (SSD) is a media that uses flash modules in order to store information. The solid-state drives are still relatively new and more expensive when compared to standard hard disk drives (HDD), however they're much faster, so they are often used for Operating Systems and applications on both desktops and web servers. An SSD is recommended because it doesn't have spinning disks that limit its speed and could cause overheating as it may happen with an HDD. Lots of companies work with SSDs for caching purposes, so all site content which is accessed more frequently will be held on this type of drives, while all other content will be located on regular HDDs. The reason to use this type of a setup is to balance the cost and overall performance of their website hosting platform and to decrease the load on the HDDs caused by intense reading and writing processes.

SSD with Data Caching in Web Hosting

In case you host your websites in a web hosting account from our company, you will definitely notice their exceptional performance. The reason is that our cloud platform uses only SSD drives for all the files, emails and databases and we do not use HDDs for any part of the hosting service. In addition to the revolutionary ZFS file system, this configuration will increase the speed of your Internet sites considerably. For load-balancing, we also use numerous SSDs for caching purposes only. All the content which generates more traffic or causes a lot of reading/writing processes is duplicated on them automatically, so the load on the main drives will be lower, thus the overall performance of all websites hosted on our end will improve. The abovementioned in turn prolongs the life of the main drives and decreases the chance of a disk failure, which is a further warranty for the integrity of all content that you upload to your account.

SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you want speed and fantastic performance for your sites, our semi-dedicated hosting accounts shall be a really suitable solution as they are generated on a cloud platform which employs SSDs for every part of the service - emails, databases and files. This way, every single website that you host with us will load fast. Just like other providers, we also use SSDs for caching, but since all storage drives are solid-state ones, you can take advantage of the good performance all of the time and irrespective of the type of your Internet sites. The caching solid-state drives are used for load-balancing and all of the frequently accessed content is copied to them, which both decreases the load and provides the optimal performance of all sites that load straight from the main drives. The lifespan of the latter is also increased because there will be considerably less reading and writing processes on them.