A solid-state drive (SSD) is a media which uses flash modules in order to save data. The SSDs are still relatively new and more pricey when compared to classic hard disk drives (HDD), yet they are faster, so they are often used for Operating Systems and apps on both home computer systems and web hosting servers. An SSD is preferred as it doesn't have spinning disks which limit its speed and may cause overheating as it could happen with an HDD. Numerous companies use SSDs for caching purposes, so any website content that is accessed more frequently will be located on such drives, while all the other content will be held on standard HDDs. The reason to use such a setup is to balance the price and performance of their website hosting platform and to lower the load on the HDDs caused by countless reading and writing processes.

SSD with Data Caching in Website Hosting

If you host your sites in a website hosting account from our company, you will notice their exceptional performance. The reason is that our cloud platform uses exclusively SSD drives for all the files, e-mail addresses and databases and we do not use HDDs for any part of the hosting service. In addition to the leading-edge ZFS file system, this configuration will raise the speed of your websites significantly. For load-balancing, we also use multiple SSDs for caching purposes only. Any content that generates more traffic or creates lots of reading/writing processes is copied on them promptly, so the load on the main drives will be lower, thus the overall performance of all sites hosted on our end will improve. The aforementioned in turn prolongs the life of the main drives and lessens the possibility of a disk failure, that is another guarantee for the integrity of any content which you upload to your account.

SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Servers

All semi-dedicated server accounts that we offer are made on a cloud platform which uses solely SSD drives. We do not use HDDs anymore, so your Internet sites will load very fast because we employ SSDs for every part of the service - files, databases and email addresses. Considering that some people may host websites which could be more frequently visited than others, we also use numerous drives for caching. Our system discovers any content that is accessed more frequently and clones it on these drives in order to load it from them. This configuration is used for load-balancing purposes as we ensure that several reading/writing intensive sites will not influence the performance of the other Internet sites which are stored on the same primary drive. Using caching drives also raises the lifespan of the main storage SSDs and lowers the potential for disk failures.