A solid-state drive (SSD) is a media which uses flash modules to store info. The solid-state drives remain fairly new and more expensive compared to standard hard disk drives (HDD), however they're considerably faster, so they are quite often employed for Operating Systems and applications on both PCs and web hosting servers. An SSD is preferred as it does not have spinning disks that restrict its speed and can even cause overheating as it could happen with an HDD. Most companies use SSDs for caching purposes, so all of the content which is accessed more often will be held on this kind of drives, while all the other content will be kept on standard HDDs. The main reason to use such a configuration is to balance the cost and overall performance of their Internet hosting platform and to minimize the load on the HDDs resulting from countless reading and writing processes.

SSD with Data Caching in Shared Hosting

We use solely SSDs on our state-of-the-art cloud hosting platform and we have eliminated all HDDs on our production servers so as to ensure lightning-fast loading speeds for every part of our services - files, e-mails and databases. This way, any content which you upload to your shared hosting account will be accessible very fast. To enhance the performance of the Internet sites hosted on our end even more, we also use a number of SSDs which work exclusively as cache - our system saves often accessed content on them and upgrades it instantly. We use such a configuration to ensure that traffic-intensive Internet sites don't affect the performance of the other Internet sites hosted on our platform and that way all other Internet sites can also take full advantage of the speed which the SSD drives provide. Furthermore, due to the fact that the load on the main drives is reduced, their lifespan shall be longer, that is one more warranty for the safety and integrity of your information.

SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you get one of our semi-dedicated hosting packages, your websites will be stored on a cloud platform which employs only SSD drives for the storing of files, databases and e-mails. Along with the revolutionary ZFS file system that we use, this setup ensures fast loading speed for every web app hosted on our end. To guarantee that the Internet sites of one user don't affect the ones of another, we also use a number of SSDs as cache - our system discovers files that are accessed more frequently and clones them, so that they start loading from the caching drives. The content on the latter is updated dynamically and therefore we can balance the load on all the drives, warrant their extended life-span, decrease the risk of disk failures and, of course, provide you with a fast and reliable website hosting service.