A solid-state drive (SSD) is a media which uses flash modules to store info. The solid-state drives are still relatively new and more pricey when compared to standard hard disk drives (HDD), however they are faster, so they are ordinarily employed for Operating Systems and apps on both PCs and servers. An SSD is preferred as it does not have spinning disks that restrict its speed and may cause overheating like it could happen with an HDD. Many companies use SSDs for caching purposes, so all the website content that is accessed more frequently will be held on this type of drives, while all the other content will be stored on conventional HDDs. The main reason to use such a setup is to balance the cost and overall performance of their web hosting platform and to reduce 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 top-notch cloud web hosting platform and we have eliminated all HDDs on the production servers in order to provide outstanding loading speeds for every aspect of our services - files, e-mails and databases. Thus, all the content you upload to your shared hosting account will be accessible amazingly quickly. In order to enhance the performance of the websites hosted on our end even further, we also use multiple SSDs which work solely as cache - our system stores regularly accessed content on them and upgrades it without delay. We use such a setup to ensure that traffic-intensive sites will not influence the performance of the other sites hosted on our platform and this way all other websites can also take advantage of the speed that the SSD drives provide. What's more, due to the fact that the load on the main drives is reduced, their life-span shall be longer, that's one more guarantee for the security and stability of your info.

SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Hosting

In case you get one of our semi-dedicated hosting plans, your Internet sites will be stored on a cloud platform which uses exclusively SSD drives for the storing of files, databases and emails. In addition to the cutting-edge ZFS file system that we use, this setup guarantees extremely fast loading speed for every web application hosted on our end. To ensure that the Internet sites of one customer will not affect the ones of another, we also use numerous SSDs as cache - our system identifies files that are accessed more frequently and duplicates them, so they start loading from the caching drives. The content on the latter is refreshed dynamically and for that reason we can balance the load on all of the drives, warrant their extended life-span, decrease the risk of disk failures and, of course, offer you a super fast and reliable website hosting service.