Data corruption is the damage of info because of various software or hardware failures. The moment a file is corrupted, it will no longer work accurately, so an application will not start or shall give errors, a text file will be partially or entirely unreadable, an archive will be impossible to open and unpack, etc. Silent data corruption is the process of info getting harmed without any acknowledgement by the system or an admin, which makes it a significant problem for website hosting servers as problems are very likely to happen on bigger hard disks where large volumes of info are located. If a drive is part of a RAID and the data on it is replicated on other drives for redundancy, it is likely that the damaged file will be treated as an undamaged one and will be copied on all the drives, making the damage permanent. A lot of the file systems that run on web servers nowadays often are not able to identify corrupted files right away or they need time-consuming system checks through which the server is not operational.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Web Hosting

We guarantee the integrity of the info uploaded in each and every web hosting account which is created on our cloud platform since we work with the advanced ZFS file system. The latter is the only one that was designed to prevent silent data corruption via a unique checksum for every single file. We'll store your data on a number of NVMe drives that operate in a RAID, so the exact same files will exist on several places at once. ZFS checks the digital fingerprint of all of the files on all of the drives in real time and in the event that the checksum of any file is different from what it should 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's easy for data to become silently damaged and the bad file to be reproduced 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 information.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Semi-dedicated Servers

In case you get one of our semi-dedicated server plans, you won't need to be concerned about silent data corruption because we use ZFS - an advanced file system that checks all the files in real time. Every time you upload a file to your website hosting account, ZFS will assign a unique digital fingerprint to it - the so-called checksum. This file will be synced between multiple NVMe drives for redundancy, so if one drive fails, the other ones will take control. ZFS compares the checksum of all of the copies on the different drives and in case it detects a damaged copy, it replaces it with a healthy one from another drive. This happens instantly, so there will be no risk for any part of your content at any time. In contrast, all the other file systems execute checks only after a system failure, but since they do not use anything similar to the checksums that ZFS uses, they can't detect silently corrupted files, so a corrupted copy may be replicated on the rest of the disks as well and you can lose precious info. As this is not the case with ZFS, we can guarantee the integrity of each and every file you upload no matter what.