Data corruption is the accidental modification of a file or the losing of information which usually occurs during reading or writing. The reason may be hardware or software fail, and consequently, a file could become partially or entirely corrupted, so it will no longer work correctly as its bits shall be scrambled or lost. An image file, for example, will no longer present a real image, but a random combination of colors, an archive will be impossible to unpack since its content will be unreadable, and so on. In the event that this kind of a problem occurs and it's not noticed by the system or by an admin, the data will become corrupted silently and if this happens on a disk drive which is a part of a RAID array where the data is synchronized between different drives, the corrupted file will be replicated on all the other drives and the harm will become long term. Many widespread file systems either don't feature real-time checks or do not have good ones that can detect an issue before the damage is done, so silent data corruption is a rather common problem on web hosting servers where huge volumes of info are stored.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Cloud Web Hosting

We warrant the integrity of the information uploaded in any cloud web hosting account that is generated on our cloud platform because we work with 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 and every file. We'll store your information on a large number of NVMe drives which work in a RAID, so exactly the same files will exist on several places at the same time. ZFS checks the digital fingerprint of all files on all the drives in real time and in the event that the checksum of any file differs from what it has to be, the file system replaces that file with an undamaged copy from another drive in the RAID. There's no other file system which uses checksums, so it's possible for data to be silently damaged and the bad file to be duplicated on all drives over time, but since this can never happen on a server running ZFS, you will not have to worry about the integrity of your info.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Your semi-dedicated hosting account will be resistant to silent data corruption as all our storage servers make use of the advanced ZFS file system. What makes the aforementioned unique is that it uses checksums, or digital identifiers, so as to verify the integrity of each and every file. When you upload content to your account, it'll be stored on a couple of redundant drives in a RAID i.e. the files shall be the same on all drives. All the copies of a specific file will feature the same checksum on all drives and ZFS will compare the checksums of the duplicates in real time, and if it registers a mismatch, that would indicate that one of the copies is corrupted, it'll substitute that file with a healthy copy from one of the other disks. Even if there is a sudden power loss, the data on the servers will not become corrupted and there will not be any need for a time-consuming system check which other file systems perform after some malfunction, extending the time needed for the server to go back online. ZFS is the file system that can really protect your content from silent data corruption.