A solid-state drive (SSD) is a media which uses flash modules to save info. The SSDs are still relatively new and more pricey compared to standard hard disk drives (HDD), however they are considerably faster, so they are often used for Operating Systems and apps on both personal computers and web hosting servers. An SSD is recommended as it doesn't have spinning disks which restrict its speed and may even cause overheating as it may happen with an HDD. A large number of companies employ SSDs for caching purposes, so all the site content that is accessed more frequently will be stored on this kind of drives, while all other content will be located on regular HDDs. The main reason to use this type of a setup is to balance the price and performance of their website hosting platform and to decrease the load on the HDDs caused by countless reading and writing processes.

SSD with Data Caching in Cloud Hosting

If you host your Internet sites in a cloud hosting account with our company, you'll notice their fantastic performance. The reason is that our cloud platform uses exclusively SSD drives for all of the files, e-mails and databases and we don't use HDDs for any part of the web hosting service. Together with the innovative ZFS file system, this setup will raise the speed of your websites substantially. For load-balancing, we also use multiple SSDs for caching purposes only. All content that generates increased traffic or causes a lot of reading/writing processes is copied on them promptly, so that the load on the primary drives will be lower, thus the overall performance of all sites 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 another guarantee for the reliability of all content which you upload to your account.