Data corruption is the damage of info due to various hardware or software problems. When a file is corrupted, it will no longer function as it should, so an app will not start or shall give errors, a text file can be partially or entirely unreadable, an archive will be impossible to open and then unpack, etc. Silent data corruption is the process of info getting harmed without any acknowledgement by the system or an administrator, that makes it a serious problem for hosting servers as failures are more likely to happen on larger hard disks where considerable volumes of info are kept. In case a drive is part of a RAID and the info on it is duplicated on other drives for redundancy, it is more than likely that the bad file will be treated as a standard one and will be copied on all the drives, making the harm permanent. Lots of the file systems that run on web servers today often are unable to find corrupted files right away or they need time-consuming system checks during which the server is not functioning.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Web Hosting

We guarantee the integrity of the information uploaded in any web hosting account that is made on our cloud platform due to the fact that we employ the advanced ZFS file system. The aforementioned is the only one which was designed to avert silent data corruption using a unique checksum for each file. We will store your data on multiple NVMe drives which operate in a RAID, so the same files will exist on several places simultaneously. ZFS checks the digital fingerprint of all of the files on all drives in real time and in the event that the checksum of any file is different from what it should be, the file system replaces that file with an undamaged version from some other drive inside the RAID. There's no other file system that uses checksums, so it is possible for data to become silently corrupted and the bad file to be duplicated on all drives with time, but since this can never happen on a server running ZFS, you won't have to concern yourself with the integrity of your data.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Your semi-dedicated hosting account will be protected against silent data corruption because all of our storage servers use the reliable ZFS file system. What makes the aforementioned unique is that it uses checksums, or digital identifiers, to verify the integrity of every single file. When you upload content to your account, it will be stored on several redundant drives in a RAID i.e. the files will be the same on all disks. All the copies of a specific file will feature the same checksum on all hard drives and ZFS will compare the checksums of the copies in real time, and if it discovers a mismatch, that will indicate that one of the copies is corrupted, it will substitute that file with a good copy from one of the other drives. Even if there is an unexpected blackout, the data on the servers won't become corrupted and there will not be any need for a time-consuming system check which other file systems perform after some failure, extending the time needed for the server to go back online. ZFS is the sole file system that can really protect your content from silent data corruption.