Data corruption is the damage of info caused by various software or hardware problems. After a file gets corrupted, it will no longer function properly, so an app will not start or will give errors, a text file could be partially or entirely unreadable, an archive file will be impossible to open and then unpack, etc. Silent data corruption is the process of data getting damaged without any acknowledgement by the system or an admin, which makes it a serious problem for web hosting servers as problems are more likely to happen on larger in size hard disk drives where considerable volumes of info are kept. If a drive is part of a RAID and the data on it is replicated on other drives for redundancy, it's more than likely that the bad file will be treated as a healthy one and it'll be copied on all of the drives, making the damage permanent. A huge number of the file systems that run on web servers nowadays often are unable to identify corrupted files in real time or they need time-consuming system checks during which the server is not functioning.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Hosting

We warrant the integrity of the information uploaded in each and every hosting account that is generated on our cloud platform due to the fact that we employ the advanced ZFS file system. The aforementioned is the only one which was designed to avert silent data corruption using a unique checksum for every single file. We shall store your data on multiple NVMe drives that function in a RAID, so the exact same files will exist on several places at the same time. ZFS checks the digital fingerprint of all the files on all of the drives in real time and in the event that the checksum of any file differs from what it should be, the file system swaps that file with a healthy version from another drive from the RAID. There's no other file system which uses checksums, so it's possible for data to get silently damaged and the bad file to be reproduced on all drives over time, but since this can never happen on a server using ZFS, you do not have to worry about the integrity of your info.

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 work with the efficient ZFS file system. What makes the latter unique is that it employs checksums, or digital identifiers, in order to ensure 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 will be the same on all disk drives. All copies of a particular file will feature the same checksum on all drives and ZFS will compare the checksums of the copies in real time, so if it identifies a mismatch, which will indicate that one of the copies is damaged, it will substitute that file with a good copy from one of the other drives. Even if there is a sudden power loss, the data on the servers won't be corrupted and there won't be any need for a time-consuming system check that other file systems perform following some failure, prolonging 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.