A solid-state drive (SSD) is a media which uses flash modules so as to store information. The SSDs remain relatively new and more expensive when compared to standard hard disk drives (HDD), however they are faster, so they are frequently employed for Operating Systems and apps on both desktops and servers. An SSD is preferred as it does not have spinning disks which limit its speed and may cause overheating like it may happen with an HDD. Lots of companies use SSDs for caching purposes, so any website content that is accessed more frequently will be held on such drives, while all the other content will be held on standard HDDs. The reason to use such a configuration is to balance the price and overall performance of their hosting platform and to minimize the load on the HDDs caused by intense reading and writing processes.

SSD with Data Caching in Shared Website Hosting

If you host your sites in a shared website hosting account from our company, you'll definitely notice their fantastic 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 Internet hosting service. In addition to the leading-edge ZFS file system, this configuration will increase the speed of your sites tremendously. For load-balancing, we also use numerous SSDs for caching purposes only. Any content that generates increased traffic or causes plenty of reading/writing processes is duplicated on them promptly, so that the load on the main drives will be reduced, thus the overall performance of all Internet sites hosted on our end will be better. This subsequently prolongs the life of the primary drives and reduces the potential for a disk failure, which is a further warranty for the integrity of all content which you upload to your account.

SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Servers

All semi-dedicated server accounts that we provide are created on a cloud platform which uses only SSD drives. We don't use HDDs anymore, so your websites will load extremely fast because we employ SSDs for every aspect of the service - files, databases and e-mail addresses. As some customers may host Internet sites which are more popular than others, we also use numerous drives for caching. Our system identifies all of the content that is accessed more frequently and clones it on these drives in order to load it from them. This setup is used for load-balancing purposes as we ensure that several reading/writing intensive websites will not affect the performance of the rest of the Internet sites which are stored on the very same primary drive. Using caching drives also raises the life-span of the main storage SSDs and lowers the possibility of disk failures.