Data corruption is the damage of info due to various hardware or software failures. When a file gets corrupted, it will no longer function accurately, so an app will not start or shall give errors, a text file shall be partially or completely 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 administrator, that makes it a serious problem for hosting servers as fails are much more likely to occur on larger in size hard disks where vast volumes of information are stored. When a drive is a part of a RAID and the info on it is copied on other drives for redundancy, it's likely that the bad file will be treated as an ordinary one and it will be copied on all drives, making the harm permanent. A huge number of the file systems that run on web servers today often are unable to locate corrupted files right away or they need time-consuming system checks during which the server isn't functioning.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Cloud Web Hosting

If you host your sites in a cloud web hosting account with our firm, you won't need to worry about your data ever getting corrupted. We can guarantee that as our cloud hosting platform works with the amazing ZFS file system. The latter is the only file system that uses checksums, or unique digital fingerprints, for each and every file. All of the information that you upload will be stored in a RAID i.e. simultaneously on a number of NVMes. A lot of file systems synchronize the files between the different drives using this kind of a setup, but there is no real guarantee that a file won't get corrupted. This can happen at the time of the writing process on each drive and then a damaged copy can be copied on the rest of the drives. What makes the difference on our platform is the fact that ZFS analyzes the checksums of all files on all drives live and in case a corrupted file is discovered, it is substituted with a good copy with the correct checksum from some other drive. That way, your info will remain unharmed no matter what, even if an entire drive fails.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Semi-dedicated Hosting

You won't experience any silent data corruption issues in case you purchase one of our semi-dedicated hosting solutions as the ZFS file system that we take advantage of on our cloud hosting platform uses checksums in order to guarantee that all files are intact all the time. A checksum is a unique digital fingerprint which is assigned to each and every file saved on a server. As we store all content on a number of drives at the same time, the same file uses the same checksum on all the drives and what ZFS does is that it compares the checksums between the different drives in real time. When 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 corrupted copy to be synchronized on the remaining hard drives. ZFS is the only file system you can find that uses checksums, which makes it much more reliable than other file systems that are not able to identify silent data corruption and duplicate bad files across hard drives.