Data corruption is the damage of info caused by various software or hardware problems. Once a file gets damaged, it will no longer function correctly, so an application will not start or will give errors, a text file shall be partially or entirely unreadable, an archive file will be impossible to open then unpack, etc. Silent data corruption is the process of information getting damaged 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 in size hard disks where vast volumes of info are stored. When a drive is part of a RAID and the data on it is duplicated on other drives for redundancy, it's more than likely that the damaged file will be treated as a standard one and it'll be duplicated on all drives, making the damage permanent. A huge number of the file systems which operate on web servers today often are not able to recognize corrupted files right away or they need time-consuming system checks through which the server is not functioning.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Shared Website Hosting

We warrant the integrity of the info uploaded in each shared website hosting account which is made on our cloud platform due to the fact that we use the advanced ZFS file system. The aforementioned is the only one which was designed to avert silent data corruption through a unique checksum for each file. We shall store your information on multiple NVMe drives which function in a RAID, so identical files will be available on several places at the same time. ZFS checks the digital fingerprint of all of the files on all drives in real time and if the checksum of any file differs from what it needs to be, the file system swaps that file with a healthy version from a different drive in the RAID. There's no other file system that uses checksums, so it is easy for data to become silently damaged and the bad file to be duplicated on all drives with time, but since this can never happen on a server using ZFS, you won't have to concern yourself with the integrity of your info.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Semi-dedicated Servers

You won't need to deal with any silent data corruption issues in case you buy one of our semi-dedicated server plans since the ZFS file system that we work with on our cloud hosting platform uses checksums in order to guarantee that all files are undamaged at all times. A checksum is a unique digital fingerprint that is allotted to each and every file kept on a server. As we store all content on multiple drives at the same time, the same file has the same checksum on all of the drives and what ZFS does is that it compares the checksums between the different drives in real time. If it detects that a file is corrupted and its checksum is different from what it has to be, it replaces that file with a healthy copy without delay, avoiding any possibility of the damaged copy to be synchronized on the remaining drives. ZFS is the sole file system on the market that uses checksums, which makes it much more reliable than other file systems which are unable to identify silent data corruption and duplicate bad files across hard drives.