A solid-state drive (SSD) is a media which uses flash modules in order to store info. The SSDs are still fairly new and more expensive compared to standard hard disk drives (HDD), but they are faster, so they are quite often used for Operating Systems and applications on both PCs and web servers. An SSD is preferred as it does not have spinning disks that limit its speed and could cause overheating as it may happen with an HDD. A large number of companies use SSDs for caching purposes, so all of the content which is accessed more often will be kept on such drives, while all the other content will be stored on standard HDDs. The reason to use this kind of a setup is to balance the price and performance of their web hosting platform and to lower the load on the HDDs caused by intense reading and writing processes.
SSD with Data Caching in Website Hosting
Our modern cloud web hosting platform employs solely SSD drives, so in case you get any of our website hosting solutions, you'll take advantage of the speed that the drives provide. We no longer use hard disks, so your files, databases and emails will all load from extremely fast SSDs. For even improved performance, we also use caching SSDs. Multiple drives are used by our system for each file which is accessed more often and the data on these drives is dynamically updated to ensure that all the traffic-intensive files load from them. This way, the load on the main drives is decreased, so we can guarantee fantastic performance for all sites no matter how many times they're accessed and prevent a situation where some websites are affected by too many reading and writing processes created by others. This setup also improves the lifespan of the main drives and reduces the chance of disk failure.
SSD with Data Caching in Semi-dedicated Hosting
In case you get one of our semi-dedicated hosting packages, your websites will be stored on a cloud platform which uses only SSD drives for the storage of files, databases and e-mails. Together with the leading-edge ZFS file system that we use, this configuration provides lightning-fast loading speed for every web app hosted on our end. To ensure that the websites of one user do not affect the ones of another one, we also use a number of SSDs as cache - our system discovers files that are accessed more frequently and duplicates them, so that they start loading from the caching drives. The content on the latter is refreshed dynamically and for that reason we can balance the load on all drives, warrant their extended lifespan, minimize the risk of disk failures and, of course, offer you a super fast and reliable website hosting service.