Data corruption is the damage of information because of various software or hardware fails. Once a file is corrupted, it will no longer work accurately, so an app will not start or will give errors, a text file could be partially or entirely unreadable, an archive file will be impossible to open then unpack, etc. Silent data corruption is the process of information getting harmed without any acknowledgement by the system or an administrator, that makes it a serious problem for website hosting servers as problems are more likely to happen on larger in size hard disks where vast volumes of information are stored. In case a drive is part of a RAID and the info on it is duplicated on other drives for redundancy, it is more than likely that the damaged file will be treated as a standard one and it will be duplicated on all of the drives, making the damage permanent. A lot of the file systems that operate on web servers these days often are not able to detect corrupted files instantly or they need time-consuming system checks through which the server isn't functioning.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Shared Website Hosting

We warrant the integrity of the info uploaded in each shared website hosting account which is generated on our cloud platform since we work with the advanced ZFS file system. The aforementioned is the only one which was designed to prevent silent data corruption using a unique checksum for every single file. We shall store your information on a large number of NVMe drives which function in a RAID, so the exact same files will be present on several places at the same time. ZFS checks the digital fingerprint of all the files on all drives in real time and in the event that the checksum of any file is different from what it needs to be, the file system replaces that file with an undamaged copy from some other drive from the RAID. There's no other file system which uses checksums, so it's possible for data to become silently corrupted and the bad file to be duplicated on all drives over time, but since this can never happen on a server running ZFS, you don't have to worry about the integrity of your information.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Semi-dedicated Servers

You will not need to deal with any kind of silent data corruption issues in case you purchase one of our semi-dedicated server solutions due to the fact that the ZFS file system that we take advantage of on our cloud hosting platform uses checksums to guarantee that all of your files are intact all the time. A checksum is a unique digital fingerprint that is given to each and every file saved on a server. Due to the fact that we store all content on multiple drives simultaneously, the same file uses the same checksum on all of the drives and what ZFS does is that it compares the checksums between the different drives right away. If it detects that a file is corrupted and its checksum is different from what it should be, it replaces that file with a healthy copy right away, avoiding any chance of the damaged copy to be synchronized on the remaining hard disks. ZFS is the only file system you can find which uses checksums, which makes it much more reliable than other file systems that are unable to detect silent data corruption and duplicate bad files across drives.