Data corruption is the damage of information due to various software or hardware failures. The moment a file is corrupted, it will no longer function as it should, so an app will not start or will give errors, a text file shall be partially or fully unreadable, an archive will be impossible to open and then 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 significant problem for hosting servers as fails are much more likely to occur on larger hard disk drives where large volumes of info are located. If a drive is a part of a RAID and the info on it is replicated 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 of the drives, making the damage permanent. A lot of the file systems that run on web servers today often are unable to identify corrupted files instantly or they need time-consuming system checks through which the server is not working.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Cloud Hosting

If you host your websites in a cloud hosting account from our firm, you do not have to worry about any of your data ever getting damaged. We can guarantee that as our cloud hosting platform employs the leading-edge ZFS file system. The latter is the only file system that works with checksums, or unique digital fingerprints, for each and every file. Any information that you upload will be stored in a RAID i.e. simultaneously on many NVMe drives. Many file systems synchronize the files between the different drives with this type of a setup, but there is no real guarantee that a file will not get corrupted. This can happen throughout the writing process on any drive and afterwards a bad copy can be copied on the rest of the drives. What is different on our platform is the fact that ZFS analyzes the checksums of all files on all the drives immediately and in case a corrupted file is located, it is swapped with a good copy with the correct checksum from another drive. That way, your info will continue to be unharmed no matter what, even if an entire drive fails.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Semi-dedicated Hosting

You won't have to deal with any silent data corruption issues if you purchase one of our semi-dedicated hosting packages as the ZFS file system that we employ on our cloud hosting platform uses checksums to ensure that all of your files are intact all of the time. A checksum is a unique digital fingerprint that is assigned to each and every file kept on a server. Since we store all content on a number of drives simultaneously, the same file uses 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 should be, it replaces that file with a healthy copy without delay, avoiding any possibility of the corrupted copy to be synchronized on the remaining drives. ZFS is the sole file system you will find that uses checksums, which makes it far superior to other file systems that cannot identify silent data corruption and duplicate bad files across hard drives.