Data corruption is the damage of data caused by various hardware or software failures. Once a file gets corrupted, it will no longer work properly, so an application 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 harmed without any identification by the system or an administrator, that makes it a serious problem for hosting servers as failures are very likely to occur on bigger hard disk drives where significant volumes of information are located. If a drive is part of a RAID and the information on it is duplicated on other drives for redundancy, it is very likely that the bad file will be treated as an undamaged one and it'll be copied on all of the drives, making the damage permanent. A lot of the file systems that run on web servers nowadays often are not able to recognize corrupted files immediately or they need time-consuming system checks during which the server isn't working.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Web Hosting

In case you host your Internet sites in a web hosting account from our firm, you don't need to worry about your data ever getting corrupted. We can guarantee that due to the fact that our cloud hosting platform uses the revolutionary ZFS file system. The aforementioned is the only file system which uses checksums, or unique digital fingerprints, for each file. All of the information that you upload will be saved in a RAID i.e. simultaneously on many NVMe drives. A lot of file systems synchronize the files between the separate drives using such a setup, but there's no real warranty that a file will not get corrupted. This may occur during the writing process on each drive and after that a bad copy can be copied on all other drives. What is different on our platform is that ZFS examines the checksums of all files on all the drives live and in the event that a corrupted file is discovered, it's substituted with a good copy with the correct checksum from another drive. In this way, your info will stay intact no matter what, even if a whole drive fails.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Semi-dedicated Hosting

You will not experience any silent data corruption issues whatsoever should you purchase one of our semi-dedicated hosting solutions because the ZFS file system that we employ on our cloud hosting platform uses checksums to make sure that all of your files are intact all of the time. A checksum is a unique digital fingerprint which is allotted to each and every file stored on a server. Due to the fact that we store all content on multiple drives at the same time, the same file has the same checksum on all of the drives and what ZFS does is that it compares the checksums between the different drives in real time. 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 possibility of the bad copy to be synchronized on the rest of the drives. ZFS is the only file system you can find which uses checksums, which makes it far superior to other file systems that cannot detect silent data corruption and copy bad files across drives.