Data corruption is the damage of information due to various software or hardware failures. When a file gets damaged, it will no longer work as it should, so an app will not start or shall give errors, a text file shall be partially or completely unreadable, an archive will be impossible to open then unpack, etc. Silent data corruption is the process of information getting damaged without any identification by the system or an administrator, that makes it a significant problem for website hosting servers as problems are much more likely to happen on larger in size hard disks where large volumes of info are placed. If a drive is a part of a RAID and the information on it is duplicated on other drives for redundancy, it is more than likely that the damaged file will be treated as an ordinary one and will be duplicated on all drives, making the harm permanent. A lot of the file systems which operate on web servers today often are unable to locate corrupted files instantly or they need time-consuming system checks during which the server isn't functioning.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Cloud Hosting

The integrity of the data which you upload to your new cloud hosting account will be ensured by the ZFS file system that we take advantage of on our cloud platform. The vast majority of internet hosting service providers, like our firm, use multiple hard disks to keep content and considering that the drives work in a RAID, exactly the same data is synchronized between the drives at all times. In case a file on a drive becomes corrupted for some reason, yet, it's more than likely that it will be reproduced on the other drives because other file systems do not offer special checks for this. Unlike them, ZFS applies a digital fingerprint, or a checksum, for every file. In the event that a file gets corrupted, its checksum won't match what ZFS has as a record for it, therefore the bad copy shall be substituted with a good one from another disk drive. Because this happens right away, there is no possibility for any of your files to ever be corrupted.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Semi-dedicated Hosting

In case you obtain one of our semi-dedicated hosting plans, you won't have to be concerned about silent data corruption as we use ZFS - an advanced file system that keeps track of all of the files in real time. Whenever you upload a file to your hosting account, ZFS will assign a unique digital fingerprint to it - the so-called checksum. That file will be synced between multiple NVMe drives for redundancy, so if one drive fails, the other ones will take over. ZFS compares the checksum of all of the copies on the different drives and in case it detects a corrupted copy, it replaces it with a healthy one from a different drive. This is done in real time, so there will be no danger for any part of your content at any time. In contrast, all of the other file systems carry out checks after a system malfunction, but since they do not use anything similar to the checksums which ZFS uses, they cannot detect silently corrupted files, so a bad copy may be replicated on the rest of the disks as well and you can lose precious information. Since this is not the case with ZFS, we can warrant the integrity of each and every file you upload no matter what.