Data corruption is the damage of information because of various software or hardware problems. When a file is damaged, it will no longer function correctly, so an application will not start or shall give errors, a text file shall be partially or completely unreadable, an archive will be impossible to open and unpack, etc. Silent data corruption is the process of data getting damaged without any acknowledgement by the system or an administrator, that makes it a serious problem for hosting servers as failures are more likely to occur on bigger hard disk drives where substantial volumes of info are placed. In case a drive is part of a RAID and the info on it is replicated on other drives for redundancy, it's very likely that the damaged file will be treated as a healthy one and it'll be copied on all the drives, making the damage permanent. A lot of the file systems which run on web servers nowadays often cannot recognize corrupted files instantly or they need time-consuming system checks through which the server is not functioning.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Shared Website Hosting

In case you host your Internet sites in a shared website hosting account from our firm, you do not have to worry about your data ever getting damaged. We can guarantee that due to the fact that our cloud hosting platform works with the cutting-edge ZFS file system. The aforementioned is the only file system that works with checksums, or unique digital fingerprints, for each file. Any kind of information that you upload will be saved in a RAID i.e. simultaneously on numerous NVMes. All file systems synchronize the files between the separate drives with this type of a setup, but there's no real warranty that a file won't get corrupted. This can occur at the time of the writing process on any drive and after that 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 instantly and in case a corrupted file is found, it is substituted with a good copy with the correct checksum from some other drive. This way, your information will continue to be unharmed no matter what, even if a whole drive fails.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Semi-dedicated Servers

You will not need to deal with any silent data corruption issues whatsoever if you purchase one of our semi-dedicated server plans as the ZFS file system that we use on our cloud hosting platform uses checksums to ensure that all the files are undamaged at all times. A checksum is a unique digital fingerprint that is given to each and every file stored on a server. As we store all content on multiple drives at the same time, the same file has the same checksum on all drives and what ZFS does is that it compares the checksums between the different drives right away. In the event that 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 damaged copy to be synchronized on the other hard drives. ZFS is the sole file system available on the market which uses checksums, which makes it much more reliable than other file systems which are not able to identify silent data corruption and copy bad files across hard drives.