A solid-state drive (SSD) is a media which uses flash modules to save information. The SSDs are still fairly new and more expensive when compared to standard hard disk drives (HDD), but they are faster, so they are frequently used for Operating Systems and applications on both PCs and hosting servers. An SSD is preferred because it doesn't have spinning disks that limit its speed and can cause overheating like it could happen with an HDD. Most companies work with SSDs for caching purposes, so any site content that is accessed more frequently will be stored on such drives, while all the other content will be located on regular HDDs. The reason to use such a configuration is to balance the price and overall performance of their Internet hosting platform and to reduce the load on the HDDs resulting from countless reading and writing processes.
SSD with Data Caching in Shared Hosting
If you host your websites in a shared hosting account from us, you'll definitely notice their exceptional performance. This is because our cloud platform uses exclusively SSD drives for all of the files, emails and databases and we do not use HDDs for any part of the Internet hosting service. Together with the amazing ZFS file system, this setup will raise the speed of your Internet sites significantly. For load-balancing, we also use a number of SSDs for caching purposes only. All of the content that generates more traffic or causes a lot of reading/writing processes is copied on them instantly, so that the load on the main drives will be lower, thus the overall performance of all Internet sites hosted on our end will be better. The abovementioned subsequently prolongs the life of the main drives and reduces the chance of a disk failure, which is a further guarantee for the reliability of any content that you upload to your account.
SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Hosting
If you obtain one of our semi-dedicated hosting packages, your sites will be stored on a cloud platform that employs exclusively SSD drives for the storing of files, databases and emails. In addition to the cutting-edge ZFS file system that we use, this configuration provides very fast loading speed for every web application hosted on our end. To ensure that the websites of one customer won't affect the ones of another, we also use numerous SSDs as cache - our system detects files which are accessed more frequently and clones them, so 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 the drives, warrant their extended life-span, lower the risk of disk failures and, of course, offer you a super fast and reliable web hosting service.