A solid-state drive (SSD) is a media which uses flash modules so as to store data. The SSDs are still fairly new and more pricey compared to classic hard disk drives (HDD), yet they're much faster, so they are frequently used for Operating Systems and applications on both personal computers and hosting servers. An SSD is preferred as it doesn't have spinning disks which limit its speed and can cause overheating like it may happen with an HDD. A lot of companies employ SSDs for caching purposes, so any site content which is accessed more often will be located on this type of drives, while all other content will be stored on standard HDDs. The reason to use this type of a setup is to balance the cost and performance of their Internet hosting platform and to decrease the load on the HDDs caused by countless reading and writing processes.

SSD with Data Caching in Shared Hosting

If you host your Internet sites in a shared hosting account from us, you'll notice their fantastic performance. The reason is that our cloud platform uses solely SSD drives for all the files, e-mails and databases and we do not use HDDs for any part of the hosting service. Along with the innovative ZFS file system, this setup will boost the speed of your sites significantly. For load-balancing, we also use multiple SSDs for caching purposes only. All content which generates more traffic or creates a lot of reading/writing processes is copied on them promptly, so that the load on the main drives will be reduced, thus the overall performance of all Internet sites hosted with us will improve. The aforementioned in turn prolongs the life of the main drives and lessens the potential for a disk failure, that is one more guarantee for the reliability of any content that you upload to your account.

SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you subscribe for one of our semi-dedicated server plans, we will save your content on SSD drives and this is valid not just for the files, but also for all the databases and email messages. This way, your script-driven applications and webmail will load amazingly quickly. We work with dedicated SSDs for caching as well. Traffic-intensive site content is cloned automatically on these drives, so we make sure that a couple of heavy Internet sites that generate a lot of reading and writing processes can't affect the other Internet sites that share the exact same drive. By reducing the overall load we also boost the lifespan of the main storage disks and decrease the potential for a disk failure, so by using SSD drives for caching purposes, we add another level of security for your site content.