Data corruption is the damage of information because of various software or hardware fails. After a file is corrupted, it will no longer function accurately, so an app will not start or will give errors, a text file can be partially or fully unreadable, an archive will be impossible to open then unpack, etc. Silent data corruption is the process of data getting damaged without any identification by the system or an admin, that makes it a significant problem for hosting servers as failures are very likely to happen on larger in size hard disks where substantial volumes of information are placed. When a drive is part of a RAID and the info on it is copied on other drives for redundancy, it's more than likely that the damaged file will be treated as a good one and it will be copied on all of the drives, making the harm permanent. Lots of the file systems that run on web servers today often cannot locate corrupted files instantly or they need time-consuming system checks through which the server is not working.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Website Hosting

We guarantee the integrity of the info uploaded in any website hosting account which is generated on our cloud platform as we work with the advanced ZFS file system. The aforementioned is the only one that was designed to avert silent data corruption via a unique checksum for each file. We will store your information on multiple NVMe drives which work in a RAID, so identical files will be accessible on several places concurrently. ZFS checks the digital fingerprint of all the files on all the drives in real time and if the checksum of any file differs from what it should be, the file system swaps that file with an undamaged version from some other drive in the RAID. There's no other file system that 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 information.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Semi-dedicated Servers

Your semi-dedicated server account will be shielded from silent data corruption as all of our storage servers work with the innovative ZFS file system. What makes the latter unique is that it uses checksums, or digital identifiers, to ensure the integrity of each file. When you upload content to your account, it'll be saved on a couple of redundant drives in a RAID i.e. the files shall be the same on all disks. All the copies of a particular file will feature the same checksum on all hard drives and ZFS will compare the checksums of the duplicates right away, and if it discovers a mismatch, which would indicate that one of the copies is corrupted, it will swap that file with a healthy copy from one of the other disks. Even if there is an unexpected power failure, the data on the servers won't get corrupted and there won't be any need for a time-consuming system check that other file systems perform following some breakdown, extending the time needed for the server to get back online. ZFS is the only file system which can truly protect your content from silent data corruption.