Data corruption is the damage of data because of various software or hardware failures. The moment a file gets damaged, it will no longer function accurately, so an application will not start or will give errors, a text file shall be partially or fully unreadable, an archive will be impossible to open and unpack, etc. Silent data corruption is the process of data getting harmed without any identification by the system or an administrator, that makes it a significant problem for website hosting servers as failures are much more likely to occur on bigger hard drives where vast volumes of information are stored. If a drive is a part of a RAID and the information on it is duplicated on other drives for redundancy, it's more than likely that the bad file will be treated as an ordinary one and it will be duplicated on all of the drives, making the damage permanent. A huge number of the file systems which run on web servers today often cannot recognize corrupted files right away or they need time-consuming system checks through which the server isn't working.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Web Hosting

We warrant the integrity of the info uploaded in each web hosting account that is created on our cloud platform as we use the advanced ZFS file system. The latter is the only one that was designed to avoid silent data corruption through a unique checksum for every single file. We'll store your data on a number of NVMe drives which function in a RAID, so the very same files will be accessible on several places simultaneously. ZFS checks the digital fingerprint of all the files on all drives in real time and in the event that the checksum of any file is different from what it has to be, the file system swaps that file with a healthy version from another drive in the RAID. No other file system uses checksums, so it's easy for data to become silently corrupted and the bad file to be replicated on all drives with time, but since this can never happen on a server using ZFS, you will not have to concern yourself with the integrity of your info.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Semi-dedicated Servers

We have avoided any risk of files getting corrupted silently due to the fact that the servers where your semi-dedicated server account will be created use a powerful file system named ZFS. Its key advantage over other file systems is that it uses a unique checksum for each and every file - a digital fingerprint that's checked in real time. Since we store all content on multiple NVMe drives, ZFS checks if the fingerprint of a file on one drive matches the one on the rest of the drives and the one it has stored. If there's a mismatch, the corrupted copy is replaced with a good one from one of the other drives and considering that this happens instantly, there is no chance that a corrupted copy could remain on our web hosting servers or that it can be copied to the other drives in the RAID. None of the other file systems work with such checks and in addition, even during a file system check right after an unexpected power failure, none of them will detect silently corrupted files. In comparison, ZFS won't crash after an electrical power failure and the regular checksum monitoring makes a lenghty file system check obsolete.