Data corruption is the damage of information caused by various hardware or software problems. The moment a file gets corrupted, it will no longer function accurately, so an app will not start or shall give errors, a text file can be partially or completely unreadable, an archive will be impossible to open and unpack, etc. Silent data corruption is the process of info getting damaged without any identification by the system or an admin, that makes it a serious problem for website hosting servers as failures are much more likely to happen on larger in size hard disk drives where considerable volumes of info are stored. When a drive is part of a RAID and the information on it is copied on other drives for redundancy, it is likely that the damaged file will be treated as an ordinary one and it will be copied on all the drives, making the damage permanent. A lot of the file systems that run on web servers these days often are not able to identify corrupted files instantly or they need time-consuming system checks through which the server is not operational.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Shared Hosting

We warrant the integrity of the information uploaded in every single shared hosting account which is made on our cloud platform since we employ the advanced ZFS file system. The aforementioned is the only one that was designed to avoid silent data corruption using a unique checksum for every single file. We shall store your info on multiple NVMe drives that operate in a RAID, so identical files will exist on several places at once. ZFS checks the digital fingerprint of all of the files on all the drives in real time and in the event that the checksum of any file is different from what it has to be, the file system replaces that file with an undamaged version from a different drive in the RAID. There's no other file system which uses checksums, so it's easy for data to get silently corrupted and the bad file to be duplicated on all drives over time, but since that can never happen on a server running ZFS, you will not have to concern yourself with the integrity of your data.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Your semi-dedicated hosting account will be shielded from silent data corruption as all our storage servers make use of the advanced ZFS file system. What makes the aforementioned unique is that it uses checksums, or digital identifiers, to guarantee the integrity of each and every file. When you upload content to your account, it will be kept on a couple of redundant drives operating in a RAID i.e. the files shall be the same on all drives. All of the copies of a particular file will feature the same checksum on all drives and ZFS will compare the checksums of the duplicates quickly, and if it discovers a mismatch, which would indicate that one of the copies is damaged, it'll replace that file with a healthy copy from one of the other disks. Even if there is an unforeseen power failure, the data on the servers will not become corrupted and there won't be any need for a time-consuming system check which other file systems perform following some malfunction, prolonging the time needed for the server to get back online. ZFS is the file system which can really protect your content from silent data corruption.