Data corruption is the damage of info caused by various software or hardware problems. Once a file gets corrupted, it will no longer work properly, so an application will not start or will give errors, a text file can 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, that makes it a serious problem for hosting servers as failures are much more likely to occur on bigger hard drives where substantial volumes of information are kept. In case a drive is a part of a RAID and the info on it is copied on other drives for redundancy, it is likely that the damaged file will be treated as an undamaged one and it will be duplicated on all of the drives, making the harm permanent. A lot of the file systems which operate on web servers today often are not able to find corrupted files right away or they need time-consuming system checks through which the server isn't functioning.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Website Hosting

If you host your sites in a website hosting account from our company, you will not need to worry about your data ever getting corrupted. We can guarantee that due to the fact that our cloud hosting platform uses the advanced ZFS file system. The latter is the only file system that works with checksums, or unique digital fingerprints, for each file. Any kind of information that you upload will be saved in a RAID i.e. simultaneously on multiple NVMe drives. All file systems synchronize the files between the separate drives with this kind of a setup, but there's no real warranty that a file won't get corrupted. This may happen during the writing process on any drive and afterwards a bad copy may be copied on the rest of the drives. What is different on our platform is the fact that ZFS compares the checksums of all files on all drives immediately and if a corrupted file is identified, it's swapped with a good copy with the correct checksum from another drive. That way, your information will continue to be unharmed no matter what, even if a whole drive fails.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Semi-dedicated Servers

Your semi-dedicated server account will be resistant to silent data corruption since all of our storage servers work with the advanced ZFS file system. What makes the latter unique is that it employs checksums, or digital identifiers, so as to verify the integrity of each file. When you upload content to your account, it'll be saved on several redundant drives operating in a RAID i.e. the files shall be the same across all disk drives. All copies of a specific file will have the same checksum on all hard disks and ZFS will compare the checksums of the duplicates right away, so if it identifies a mismatch, that would indicate that one of the copies is corrupted, it will swap that file with a healthy copy from one of the other drives. Even if there's an unexpected blackout, the data on the servers will not get corrupted and there will not be any need for a time-consuming system check which other file systems perform after some breakdown, extending the time needed for the server to go back online. ZFS is the only file system which can truly protect your content from silent data corruption.