Data corruption is the damage of data due to various hardware or software problems. After a file gets corrupted, it will no longer work properly, so an app will not start or shall give errors, a text file can be partially or entirely unreadable, an archive file will be impossible to open and then unpack, etc. Silent data corruption is the process of information getting harmed without any identification by the system or an administrator, which makes it a significant problem for website hosting servers as problems are much more likely to occur on bigger hard disk drives where considerable volumes of info are placed. When a drive is part of a RAID and the info on it is copied on other drives for redundancy, it's very likely that the bad file will be treated as a healthy one and it'll be copied on all of the drives, making the damage permanent. Lots of the file systems which operate on web servers these days often are unable to detect corrupted files in real time or they need time-consuming system checks during which the server isn't functioning.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Cloud Website Hosting

The integrity of the data which you upload to your new cloud website hosting account will be guaranteed by the ZFS file system that we take advantage of on our cloud platform. Most of the web hosting providers, like our firm, use multiple hard disks to store content and since the drives work in a RAID, the same information is synchronized between the drives all of the time. If a file on a drive becomes corrupted for reasons unknown, however, it is likely that it will be duplicated on the other drives because alternative file systems do not feature special checks for this. In contrast to them, ZFS applies a digital fingerprint, or a checksum, for each and every file. In the event that a file gets corrupted, its checksum will not match what ZFS has as a record for it, and the bad copy shall be replaced with a good one from a different hard drive. Because this happens right away, there's no risk for any of your files to ever be corrupted.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you obtain one of our semi-dedicated server packages, you will not need to be concerned about silent data corruption as we use ZFS - an advanced file system which keeps track of all 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. This file will be synchronized between several NVMe drives for redundancy, so if one drive fails, the other ones will take control. ZFS compares the checksum of all the copies on the different drives and in case it detects a damaged copy, it replaces it with a healthy one from another drive. This happens immediately, so there will be no risk for any part of your content at any time. In contrast, all the other file systems perform checks after a system breakdown, but since they don't use anything similar to the checksums which ZFS uses, they are unable to detect silently corrupted files, so a bad copy could be replicated on the other disks as well and you can lose critical information. As this isn't the case with ZFS, we guarantee the integrity of each and every file you upload no matter what.