A solid-state drive (SSD) is a media which uses flash modules in order to store information. The solid-state drives remain fairly new and more pricey compared to classic hard disk drives (HDD), yet they are much faster, so they are ordinarily employed for Operating Systems and applications on both desktops and web hosting servers. An SSD is preferred as it does not have spinning disks which limit its speed and may cause overheating like it could happen with an HDD. Most companies work with SSDs for caching purposes, so all of the site content which is accessed more often will be kept on such drives, while all other content will be located on ordinary HDDs. The reason to use this type of a setup is to balance the cost and overall performance of their hosting platform and to lower the load on the HDDs resulting from intense reading and writing processes.

SSD with Data Caching in Hosting

In case you host your websites in a hosting account with us, you'll definitely notice their exceptional performance. This is because our cloud platform uses solely SSD drives for all the files, e-mails and databases and we don't use HDDs for any part of the website hosting service. Along with the amazing ZFS file system, this configuration will raise the speed of your websites significantly. For load-balancing, we also use a number of SSDs for caching purposes only. Any content that generates more traffic or causes plenty of reading/writing processes is duplicated on them instantly, so the load on the primary drives will be reduced, thus the overall performance of all sites hosted with us will improve. The abovementioned subsequently prolongs the life of the primary drives and decreases the possibility of a disk failure, that is another warranty for the reliability of any content which you upload to your account.

SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you subscribe for one of our semi-dedicated server plans, we'll hold your content on SSD drives and this is valid not only for the files, but also for all of the databases and e-mail messages. Thus, your script-driven apps and webmail will load speedily. We work with dedicated SSDs for caching too. Traffic-intensive content is duplicated automatically on these drives, so we ensure that a number of heavy websites that generate a considerable amount of reading and writing processes won't impact the other websites which share the very same drive. By reducing the overall load we also boost the lifespan of the primary storage disks and reduce the chance of a disk failure, so by employing SSD drives for caching purposes, we add an additional level of protection for your site content.