A solid-state drive (SSD) is a media which uses flash modules in order to save data. The SSDs remain relatively 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 apps on both home computer systems and web hosting servers. An SSD is recommended as it does not have spinning disks that limit its speed and can cause overheating as it could happen with an HDD. Many companies work with SSDs for caching purposes, so all of the website content which is accessed more frequently will be held on this kind of drives, while all the other content will be located on conventional HDDs. The main reason to use such a configuration is to balance the price and performance of their Internet hosting platform and to lower the load on the HDDs resulting from countless reading and writing processes.

SSD with Data Caching in Hosting

In case you host your sites in a hosting account with us, you'll notice their fantastic performance. The reason is that our cloud platform uses exclusively SSD drives for all files, e-mails and databases and we don't use HDDs for any part of the Internet hosting service. Together with the innovative ZFS file system, this setup will boost the speed of your websites considerably. For load-balancing, we also use multiple SSDs for caching purposes only. All the content that generates increased traffic or creates a lot of reading/writing processes is copied on them instantly, so the load on the main drives will be reduced, thus the overall performance of all sites hosted on our end will improve. The latter in turn prolongs the life of the primary drives and lessens the chance of a disk failure, which is one more guarantee for the integrity of any content that you upload to your account.

SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you want speed and fantastic performance for your sites, our semi-dedicated hosting accounts shall be a very suitable solution because they are made on a cloud platform that employs SSDs for every part of the service - e-mail addresses, databases and files. This way, every single site that you host on our end will load fast. Similar to other service providers, we also use SSDs for caching, but since all storage drives are solid-state ones, you will be able to take advantage of the high performance all the time and whatever the nature of your Internet sites. The caching solid-state drives are used for load-balancing and all frequently accessed content is copied to them, which both minimizes the load and provides the excellent performance of all sites which load directly from the primary drives. The lifespan of the latter will also be increased as there will be significantly less reading and writing processes on them.