Data corruption is the damage of data because of various hardware or software failures. When 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 entirely unreadable, an archive will be impossible to open and then unpack, etc. Silent data corruption is the process of info getting harmed without any identification by the system or an admin, that makes it a serious problem for hosting servers as fails are more likely to occur on larger hard disks where substantial volumes of information are stored. In case a drive is part of a RAID and the info on it is duplicated on other drives for redundancy, it is likely that the bad file will be treated as an ordinary one and it will be copied on all drives, making the harm permanent. A huge number of the file systems which run on web servers nowadays often are not able to find corrupted files right away or they need time-consuming system checks during which the server isn't operational.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Cloud Hosting

The integrity of the data which you upload to your new cloud hosting account shall be guaranteed by the ZFS file system that we take advantage of on our cloud platform. The majority of hosting suppliers, like our firm, use multiple hard disk drives to store content and since the drives work in a RAID, exactly the same data is synchronized between the drives all of the time. In case a file on a drive gets damaged for whatever reason, yet, it is likely that it will be copied on the other drives since other file systems don't feature special checks for that. In contrast to them, ZFS works with a digital fingerprint, or a checksum, for each and every file. If a file gets damaged, its checksum won't match what ZFS has as a record for it, and the bad copy will be substituted with a good one from a different drive. As this happens instantly, there is no possibility for any of your files to ever get damaged.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Semi-dedicated Servers

In case you purchase one of our semi-dedicated server solutions, you won't need to be concerned about silent file 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 web hosting account, ZFS will assign a unique digital fingerprint to it - the so-called checksum. That file will be synced between a number of NVMe drives for redundancy, so if one drive fails, the other ones will take control. ZFS compares the checksum of all copies on the different drives and when it detects a corrupted copy, it replaces it with a healthy one from a different drive. This happens instantly, so there will be no threat for any part of your content at any moment. In comparison, all the other file systems perform checks after a system malfunction, but since they don't use anything similar to the checksums which ZFS uses, they will not detect silently corrupted files, so a bad copy could be replicated on the rest of the disks as well and you may lose precious information. Because this isn't the case with ZFS, we are able to guarantee the integrity of each and every file you upload no matter what.