A solid-state drive (SSD) is a media that uses flash modules in order to save information. The SSDs are still fairly new and more expensive compared to classic hard disk drives (HDD), however they're much faster, so they are quite often used for Operating Systems and applications on both PCs and servers. An SSD is preferred as it doesn't have spinning disks that limit its speed and may even cause overheating like it could happen with an HDD. Most companies work with SSDs for caching purposes, so all of the content which is accessed more frequently will be kept on this type of drives, while all other content will be kept on conventional HDDs. The reason to use such a setup is to balance the cost and performance of their hosting platform and to reduce the load on the HDDs resulting from numerous reading and writing processes.

SSD with Data Caching in Cloud Web Hosting

Our top-notch cloud Internet hosting platform employs only SSD drives, so if you obtain any of our cloud web hosting solutions, you will take full advantage of the speed that the drives provide. We no longer use HDDs, so your files, databases and e-mails will all open from quick SSDs. For even greater performance, we use caching SSDs. A group of drives are used by our system for every file which is accessed more frequently and the data on these drives is dynamically updated in order to make sure that all the traffic-intensive files load from them. That way, the load on the primary drives is lowered, so we can provide exceptional performance for all sorts of Internet sites no matter how often they are accessed and avoid a situation where some sites are affected by an excessive number of reading and writing processes generated by others. This setup also raises the lifespan of the main drives and decreases the possibility of disk failure.

SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you obtain one of our semi-dedicated server packages, your websites will be stored on a cloud platform that employs exclusively SSD drives for the storing of files, databases and e-mail messages. In addition to the advanced ZFS file system that we use, this configuration provides fast loading speed for any web app hosted on our end. To guarantee that the Internet sites of one user will not affect the ones of another, we also use numerous SSDs as cache - our system discovers files that are accessed more frequently and duplicates them, so that they start loading from the caching drives. The content on the latter is refreshed dynamically and because of this we can balance the load on all drives, warrant their extended lifespan, reduce the risk of disk failures and, of course, provide a quick and reliable web hosting service.