Data corruption is the damage of data caused by various hardware or software failures. When a file gets damaged, it will no longer work accurately, so an app will not start or shall give errors, a text file shall be partially or completely unreadable, an archive file will be impossible to open then unpack, etc. Silent data corruption is the process of data getting damaged without any acknowledgement by the system or an administrator, which makes it a serious problem for website hosting servers as problems are more likely to happen on bigger hard drives where substantial volumes of information are placed. If a drive is part of a RAID and the data on it is copied on other drives for redundancy, it is more than 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. Lots of the file systems that run on web servers nowadays often are unable to find corrupted files instantly or they need time-consuming system checks during which the server is not functioning.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Shared Hosting

We warrant the integrity of the data uploaded in every shared hosting account which is generated on our cloud platform due to the fact that we employ 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'll store your info on multiple NVMe drives that work in a RAID, so identical files will be available on several places concurrently. 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 a healthy version from a different drive inside the RAID. No other file system uses checksums, so it's possible for data to become silently corrupted and the bad file to be reproduced on all drives with time, but since this 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 Hosting

You won't experience any kind of silent data corruption issues if you purchase one of our semi-dedicated hosting solutions as the ZFS file system that we take advantage of on our cloud hosting platform uses checksums in order to guarantee that all files are undamaged all the time. A checksum is a unique digital fingerprint which is allotted to each and every file kept on a server. Because we store all content on multiple drives at the same time, 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 in real time. When it detects that a file is corrupted and its checksum is different from what it has to be, it replaces that file with a healthy copy right away, avoiding any possibility of the corrupted copy to be synchronized on the other drives. ZFS is the sole file system on the market that uses checksums, which makes it much more reliable than other file systems that are not able to identify silent data corruption and copy bad files across hard drives.