Data corruption is the damage of info due to various software or hardware problems. After a file is damaged, it will no longer function accurately, so an application will not start or shall give errors, a text file can be partially or entirely unreadable, an archive file will be impossible to open then unpack, etc. Silent data corruption is the process of data getting harmed without any acknowledgement by the system or an administrator, that makes it a significant problem for website hosting servers as problems are more likely to happen on bigger hard drives where considerable volumes of information are kept. When a drive is a part of a RAID and the information on it is copied on other drives for redundancy, it is more than likely that the bad file will be treated as a healthy one and will be duplicated on all of the drives, making the damage permanent. A huge number of the file systems that run on web servers these days often are not able to find corrupted files instantly or they need time-consuming system checks through which the server isn't operational.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Cloud Web Hosting

We guarantee the integrity of the info uploaded in each cloud web hosting account which is made on our cloud platform due to the fact that we use the advanced ZFS file system. The latter is the only one which was designed to prevent silent data corruption through a unique checksum for each file. We will store your data on a number of NVMe drives which function in a RAID, so the very same files will be present on several places concurrently. 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 needs to be, the file system swaps that file with a healthy copy from a different drive inside the RAID. No other file system uses checksums, so it is possible for data to become silently damaged and the bad file to be duplicated on all drives with time, but since that can never happen on a server running ZFS, you will not have to worry about the integrity of your data.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you purchase one of our semi-dedicated hosting packages, you will not need to be concerned about silent data corruption because we use ZFS - a high level file system which keeps track of all files in real time. Each time you upload a file to your account, ZFS will assign a unique digital fingerprint to it - the so-called checksum. This file will be synchronized between a number of NVMe drives for redundancy, so if one drive fails, the other ones will take over. ZFS compares the checksum of all copies on the different drives and if it detects a damaged copy, it replaces it with a healthy one from another drive. This happens instantly, so there will be no threat for any part of your content at any moment. In comparison, all the other file systems execute checks only after a system failure, but since they don't use anything similar to the checksums that ZFS uses, they won't detect silently corrupted files, so a corrupted copy could be replicated on the remaining drives as well and you could lose important info. Since this isn't the case with ZFS, we can guarantee the integrity of each file you upload no matter what.