Data corruption is the damage of information because of various hardware or software problems. After a file gets damaged, it will no longer function accurately, so an app will not start or will give errors, a text file will be partially or completely unreadable, an archive will be impossible to open then unpack, etc. Silent data corruption is the process of information getting harmed without any acknowledgement by the system or an administrator, that makes it a serious problem for website hosting servers as fails are very likely to occur on larger hard disks where large volumes of info are stored. If a drive is a part of a RAID and the information on it is replicated on other drives for redundancy, it is very likely that the damaged file will be treated as a healthy one and it'll be duplicated on all of the drives, making the damage permanent. Lots of the file systems which run on web servers these days often are not able to identify corrupted files instantly or they need time-consuming system checks during which the server isn't operational.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Cloud Web Hosting

We warrant the integrity of the information uploaded in each cloud web hosting account that is made on our cloud platform as we use the advanced ZFS file system. The latter is the only one that was designed to prevent silent data corruption through a unique checksum for every single file. We'll store your information on multiple NVMe drives that function in a RAID, so the same files will be present on several places concurrently. ZFS checks the digital fingerprint of all the files on all the drives in real time and in case the checksum of any file differs from what it should be, the file system swaps that file with a healthy version from another drive from the RAID. There's no other file system that uses checksums, so it is possible 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 running ZFS, you don't have to concern yourself with the integrity of your info.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Semi-dedicated Servers

You will not experience any kind of silent data corruption issues whatsoever if you acquire one of our semi-dedicated server solutions as the ZFS file system that we work with on our cloud hosting platform uses checksums to make sure that all of your files are intact all of the time. A checksum is a unique digital fingerprint that is given to each and every file kept on a server. Since we store all content on multiple drives at the same time, the same file has 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. In case 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 right away, avoiding any possibility of the corrupted copy to be synchronized on the remaining hard drives. ZFS is the only file system available on the market which uses checksums, which makes it much more reliable than other file systems that are not able to detect silent data corruption and duplicate bad files across drives.