A solid-state drive (SSD) is a media that uses flash modules so as to save information. The solid-state drives are still relatively new and more expensive when compared to standard hard disk drives (HDD), yet they're faster, so they are ordinarily used for Operating Systems and applications on both personal computers and web hosting servers. An SSD is recommended because it does not have spinning disks which restrict its speed and may even cause overheating as it may happen with an HDD. Most companies use SSDs for caching purposes, so all of the site content which is accessed more frequently will be held on this kind of drives, while all the other content will be stored on standard HDDs. The reason to use this type of a setup is to balance the cost and overall performance of their website hosting platform and to minimize the load on the HDDs caused by countless reading and writing processes.
SSD with Data Caching in Cloud Hosting
In case you host your sites in a cloud hosting account with us, you'll notice their exceptional performance. The reason is that our cloud platform uses exclusively SSD drives for all the files, email addresses and databases and we do not use HDDs for any part of the web hosting service. In addition to the innovative ZFS file system, this configuration will raise the speed of your websites significantly. For load-balancing, we also use multiple SSDs for caching purposes only. All the content which generates increased traffic or causes plenty of reading/writing processes is copied on them instantly, so that the load on the primary drives will be reduced, thus the overall performance of all sites hosted on our end will improve. The aforementioned in turn prolongs the life of the main drives and lessens the potential for 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 Servers
If you obtain one of our semi-dedicated server packages, your websites will be stored on a cloud platform that employs solely SSD drives for the storing of files, databases and emails. Along with the cutting-edge ZFS file system that we use, this setup ensures lightning-fast loading speed for any web application hosted on our end. To ensure that the Internet sites of one customer won't affect the ones of another, we also use multiple SSDs as cache - our system identifies files which are accessed more frequently and duplicates them, so that they start loading from the caching drives. The content on the latter is updated dynamically and therefore we can balance the load on all the drives, ensure their long lifespan, minimize the risk of disk failures and, of course, provide you with a quick and reliable website hosting service.