Data corruption is the damage of data due to various software or hardware fails. Once a file is corrupted, it will no longer function accurately, so an application will not start or shall give errors, a text file shall be partially or entirely unreadable, an archive will be impossible to open then unpack, etc. Silent data corruption is the process of info getting damaged without any acknowledgement 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 disks where substantial volumes of information are kept. In case a drive is part of a RAID and the data on it is replicated on other drives for redundancy, it is more than likely that the bad file will be treated as a regular one and it will be duplicated on all of the drives, making the harm permanent. A huge number of the file systems which operate on web servers nowadays often are not able to discover corrupted files immediately or they need time-consuming system checks through which the server isn't working.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Cloud Web Hosting

If you host your websites in a cloud web hosting account with our company, you will not need to worry about your data ever getting corrupted. We can guarantee that as our cloud hosting platform uses the leading-edge ZFS file system. The aforementioned is the only file system that uses checksums, or unique digital fingerprints, for every single file. Any info that you upload will be saved in a RAID i.e. simultaneously on many NVMe drives. All the file systems synchronize the files between the different drives with this kind of a setup, but there's no real warranty that a file won't get corrupted. This could occur throughout the writing process on each drive and after that a corrupted copy may be copied on the other drives. What makes the difference on our platform is that ZFS examines the checksums of all files on all drives immediately and when a corrupted file is discovered, it is substituted with a good copy with the correct checksum from another drive. By doing this, your data will continue to be unharmed no matter what, even if a whole drive fails.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you acquire 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 that monitors all files in real time. Whenever you upload a file to your website hosting account, ZFS will assign a unique digital fingerprint to it - the so-called checksum. This file will be synchronized between a couple of 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 if it detects a corrupted copy, it replaces it with a healthy one from another drive. This happens right away, so there will be no risk for any part of your content at any time. In comparison, alternative file systems carry out checks only after a system breakdown, but since they don't use anything similar to the checksums that ZFS uses, they are unable to detect silently corrupted files, so a corrupted copy could be replicated on the remaining disks as well and you may lose crucial data. Because this is not the case with ZFS, we warrant the integrity of each and every file you upload no matter what.