A solid-state drive (SSD) is a media which uses flash modules so as to store info. The solid-state drives remain relatively new and more pricey compared to classic hard disk drives (HDD), however they are much faster, so they are often employed for Operating Systems and applications on both desktops and hosting servers. An SSD is recommended as it does not have spinning disks which restrict its speed and may cause overheating as it may happen with an HDD. Lots of companies employ SSDs for caching purposes, so all the content which is accessed more frequently will be kept on this type of drives, while all other content will be stored on regular HDDs. The reason to use such a setup is to balance the price and overall performance of their website hosting platform and to minimize the load on the HDDs caused by numerous reading and writing processes.

SSD with Data Caching in Shared Website Hosting

If you host your sites in a shared website hosting account with our company, you will definitely notice their fantastic performance. This is because our cloud platform uses only SSD drives for all the files, e-mail addresses and databases and we don't use HDDs for any part of the website hosting service. In addition to the cutting-edge ZFS file system, this setup will raise the speed of your websites tremendously. For load-balancing, we also use numerous SSDs for caching purposes only. All the content which generates increased traffic or causes a lot of reading/writing processes is duplicated on them automatically, so the load on the main drives will be lower, thus the overall performance of all Internet sites hosted with us will improve. The abovementioned subsequently prolongs the life of the main drives and reduces the potential for a disk failure, which is an additional warranty for the reliability of any content which you upload to your account.