A solid-state drive (SSD) is a media that uses flash modules to store info. The SSDs remain fairly new and more pricey than the standard hard disk drives (HDD), yet they are faster, so they are frequently employed for Operating Systems and apps on both desktops and hosting servers. An SSD is recommended because it doesn't have spinning disks that limit its speed and can even cause overheating like it may happen with an HDD. Lots of companies employ SSDs for caching purposes, so all site content which is accessed more frequently will be located on this type of drives, while all other content will be held on regular HDDs. The reason to use such a setup is to balance the price and performance of their web hosting platform and to minimize the load on the HDDs caused by countless reading and writing processes.

SSD with Data Caching in Web Hosting

If you host your sites in a web hosting account from our company, you'll definitely notice their fantastic performance. This is because our cloud platform uses only SSD drives for all the files, email addresses and databases and we do not use HDDs for any part of the hosting service. Along with the cutting-edge ZFS file system, this setup will raise the speed of your sites drastically. For load-balancing, we also use numerous SSDs for caching purposes only. Any content that generates more traffic or creates a lot of reading/writing processes is duplicated on them instantly, so the load on the main drives will be lower, thus the overall performance of all websites hosted with us will improve. The abovementioned in turn prolongs the life of the primary drives and lessens the potential for a disk failure, that is one more guarantee for the reliability of any content that you upload to your account.

SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Servers

All semi-dedicated server accounts that we offer are generated on a cloud platform that employs exclusively SSD drives. We don't use HDDs anymore, so your sites will load quickly because we employ SSDs for every aspect of the service - files, databases and e-mails. Considering that some users may host Internet sites that are more frequently visited than others, we also use many drives for caching. Our system identifies any content that is loaded more regularly and duplicates it on these drives so as to load it from them. This configuration is used for load-balancing purposes as we make sure that several reading/writing intensive sites will not affect the performance of the rest of the websites which are stored on the same primary drive. Using caching drives also increases the lifespan of the main storage SSDs and reduces the probability of disk failures.