Data corruption is the damage of information because of various software or hardware failures. When a file gets damaged, it will no longer function as it should, so an application will not start or shall give errors, a text file could be partially or fully unreadable, an archive file will be impossible to open and then unpack, etc. Silent data corruption is the process of data getting damaged without any identification by the system or an administrator, that makes it a significant problem for hosting servers as failures are more likely to occur on larger hard disk drives where vast volumes of info are located. In case a drive is part of a RAID and the information on it is replicated on other drives for redundancy, it is very likely that the bad file will be treated as an ordinary one and will be duplicated on all drives, making the harm permanent. A huge number of the file systems which run on web servers these days often are unable to recognize corrupted files in real time or they need time-consuming system checks during which the server isn't working.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Website Hosting

The integrity of the data that you upload to your new website hosting account shall be ensured by the ZFS file system that we make use of on our cloud platform. Most of the internet hosting service providers, including our firm, use multiple hard drives to store content and because the drives work in a RAID, the exact same info is synchronized between the drives at all times. In case a file on a drive becomes damaged for reasons unknown, yet, it's very likely that it will be copied on the other drives as other file systems don't have special checks for this. Unlike them, ZFS works with a digital fingerprint, or a checksum, for every file. In case a file gets corrupted, its checksum will not match what ZFS has as a record for it, so the bad copy will be replaced with a good one from another drive. Since this happens instantly, there's no possibility for any of your files to ever get damaged.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you purchase one of our semi-dedicated server packages, you won't need to worry about silent data corruption since we use ZFS - a high level file system that checks all the files in real time. Whenever you upload a file to your website hosting account, ZFS will assign a unique digital fingerprint to it - the so-called checksum. That file will be synced between a couple of NVMe drives for redundancy, so if a drive fails, the other ones will take over. ZFS compares the checksum of all of the copies on the different drives and when it detects a damaged copy, it replaces it with a healthy one from a different drive. This is done immediately, so there will be no threat for any part of your content at any time. By comparison, all of the other file systems execute checks after a system breakdown, but since they don't use anything similar to the checksums which ZFS uses, they cannot detect silently corrupted files, so a corrupted copy may be replicated on the rest of the drives as well and you can lose critical data. Since this is not the case with ZFS, we warrant the integrity of each and every file you upload no matter what.