Data corruption is the damage of information due to various hardware or software problems. Once a file is corrupted, it will no longer work accurately, so an app will not start or will give errors, a text file could be partially or completely unreadable, an archive file will be impossible to open and unpack, etc. Silent data corruption is the process of information getting harmed without any identification by the system or an admin, which makes it a serious problem for website hosting servers as problems are more likely to occur on larger hard disk drives where vast volumes of information are located. In case a drive is a part of a RAID and the info on it is duplicated on other drives for redundancy, it's very likely that the damaged file will be treated as a good one and will be duplicated on all drives, making the damage permanent. A lot of the file systems that run on web servers today often are not able to identify corrupted files immediately or they need time-consuming system checks during which the server isn't working.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Shared Hosting

We guarantee the integrity of the info uploaded in every shared hosting account that is generated on our cloud platform since we use the advanced ZFS file system. The aforementioned is the only one which was designed to avoid silent data corruption through a unique checksum for each file. We shall store your data on multiple NVMe drives which work in a RAID, so identical files will be available on several places at once. ZFS checks the digital fingerprint of all the files on all of the drives in real time and if the checksum of any file is different from what it has to be, the file system replaces that file with an undamaged copy from a different drive within the RAID. No other file system uses checksums, so it's easy for data to become silently corrupted and the bad file to be reproduced on all drives with time, but since that can never happen on a server running ZFS, you will not have to concern yourself with the integrity of your info.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Your semi-dedicated hosting account will be protected against silent data corruption since all of our storage servers make use of the efficient ZFS file system. What makes the latter unique is that it uses checksums, or digital identifiers, in order to ensure the integrity of each file. When you upload content to your account, it'll be kept on several redundant drives in a RAID i.e. the files will be the same across all drives. All copies of a particular file will feature the same checksum on all hard drives and ZFS will compare the checksums of the copies right away, so if it finds a mismatch, that would indicate that one of the copies is damaged, it'll swap that file with a healthy copy from one of the other disks. Even if there is an unforeseen 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 after some failure, extending the time needed for the server to return online. ZFS is the only file system which can truly protect your content from silent data corruption.