A solid-state drive (SSD) is a media that uses flash modules so as to store info. The SSDs are still fairly new and more pricey compared to standard hard disk drives (HDD), however they are considerably faster, so they are quite often employed for Operating Systems and applications on both home PCs and servers. An SSD is preferred as it does not have spinning disks which limit its speed and may even cause overheating as it may happen with an HDD. A lot of companies work with SSDs for caching purposes, so any site content that is accessed more frequently will be held on this type of drives, while all the other content will be located on conventional HDDs. The main reason to use this kind of a setup is to balance the cost and performance of their hosting platform and to reduce the load on the HDDs caused by countless reading and writing processes.

SSD with Data Caching in Web Hosting

We use exclusively SSDs on our top-notch cloud hosting platform and we've eliminated all HDDs on our production servers in order to ensure lightning-fast loading speeds for every aspect of our services - files, emails and databases. Thus, any content that you upload to your web hosting account will be accessible very quickly. In order to improve the overall performance of the Internet sites hosted on our end even more, we also use a number of SSDs which function solely as cache - our system stores routinely accessed content on them and updates it instantly. We take advantage of such a configuration to ensure that multi-media loaded Internet sites do not affect the performance of the other sites hosted on our platform and this way all other Internet sites can also take advantage of the speed which the SSD drives provide. Furthermore, given that the load on the main drives is reduced, their lifespan will be longer, which is one more warranty for the safety and integrity of your information.

SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Servers

In case you purchase one of our semi-dedicated server plans, your sites will be stored on a cloud platform which employs only SSD drives for the storing of files, databases and emails. In addition to the leading-edge ZFS file system that we use, this setup ensures extremely fast loading speed for each web application hosted on our end. To guarantee that the websites of one customer don't affect the ones of another one, we also use numerous SSDs as cache - our system detects files which are accessed more frequently and duplicates 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 of the drives, warrant their extended life-span, reduce the risk of disk failures and, of course, provide you with a fast and reliable Internet hosting service.