A solid-state drive (SSD) is a media that uses flash modules so as to save data. The solid-state drives remain relatively new and more pricey than the classic hard disk drives (HDD), yet they are much faster, so they are quite often employed for Operating Systems and apps on both home computer systems and hosting servers. An SSD is preferred because it does not have spinning disks that limit its speed and may cause overheating like it may happen with an HDD. Most companies employ SSDs for caching purposes, so all of the content that is accessed more frequently will be located on such drives, while all other content will be held on ordinary HDDs. The main reason to use such a setup is to balance the cost and overall performance of their hosting platform and to decrease the load on the HDDs resulting from countless reading and writing processes.

SSD with Data Caching in Shared Hosting

If you host your Internet sites in a shared hosting account from our company, you will notice their excellent performance. The reason is that our cloud platform uses solely SSD drives for all files, e-mails and databases and we don't use HDDs for any part of the Internet hosting service. In addition to the advanced ZFS file system, this setup will raise the speed of your websites drastically. For load-balancing, we also use a number of SSDs for caching purposes only. All the content which generates more traffic or creates lots of reading/writing processes is duplicated on them instantly, so the load on the main drives will be reduced, thus the overall performance of all websites hosted on our end will be better. The latter in turn prolongs the life of the primary drives and lessens the potential for a disk failure, that is a further warranty for the integrity of any content which you upload to your account.

SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you register for one of our semi-dedicated server plans, we'll save your content on SSD drives and this is valid not only for the files, but also for all the databases and e-mails. This way, your script-driven apps and webmail will load very fast. We work with dedicated SSDs for caching as well. Traffic-intensive site content is cloned automatically on these drives, so we ensure that a number of heavy websites which generate a considerable amount of reading and writing processes shall not impact the other Internet sites which share the exact same drive. By reduction of the overall system load we also increase the lifespan of the main storage drives and decrease the probability of a disk failure, so by using SSD drives for caching purposes, we add an extra level of security for your website content.