Data corruption is the damage of data caused by various software or hardware fails. Once a file is corrupted, it will no longer function as it should, so an application will not start or will give errors, a text file shall be partially or completely unreadable, an archive file 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, which makes it a significant problem for website hosting servers as failures are very likely to happen on larger in size hard disk drives where significant volumes of info are placed. If a drive is a part of a RAID and the data on it is replicated on other drives for redundancy, it's likely that the damaged file will be treated as an ordinary one and will be copied on all of the drives, making the harm permanent. A lot of the file systems which run on web servers today often are unable to detect corrupted files right away or they need time-consuming system checks through which the server isn't functioning.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Shared Web Hosting

In case you host your sites in a shared web hosting account from our firm, you won't need to worry about your data ever getting corrupted. We can ensure that as our cloud hosting platform employs the revolutionary ZFS file system. The latter is the only file system which uses checksums, or unique digital fingerprints, for each and every file. All the information that you upload will be kept in a RAID i.e. simultaneously on multiple NVMe drives. All file systems synchronize the files between the separate drives using such a setup, but there is no real guarantee that a file will not be corrupted. This could happen at the time of the writing process on any drive and then a damaged copy can be copied on the rest of the drives. What is different on our platform is that ZFS compares the checksums of all files on all of the drives instantly and in the event that a corrupted file is found, it's substituted with a good copy with the correct checksum from another drive. In this way, your information will continue to be intact no matter what, even if an entire drive fails.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Semi-dedicated Servers

Your semi-dedicated server account will be protected against silent data corruption since all our storage servers make use of the advanced ZFS file system. What makes the latter unique is that it employs checksums, or digital identifiers, so as to guarantee the integrity of every single file. When you upload content to your account, it will be stored on several redundant drives working in a RAID i.e. the files will be the same on all disks. All the copies of a given file will have the same checksum on all hard disks and ZFS will compare the checksums of the duplicates right away, so if it finds a mismatch, that will indicate that one of the copies is damaged, it will substitute that file with a good copy from one of the other disks. Even if there's a sudden blackout, the data on the servers will not become corrupted and there won't be any need for a time-consuming system check that other file systems perform following some failure, lengthening the time needed for the server to go back online. ZFS is the file system which can really protect your content from silent data corruption.