Data corruption is the damage of data caused by various hardware or software fails. After a file is damaged, it will no longer function correctly, so an app will not start or will give errors, a text file could be partially or completely unreadable, an archive file will be impossible to open and unpack, etc. Silent data corruption is the process of data getting harmed without any acknowledgement by the system or an admin, that makes it a significant problem for hosting servers as fails are much more likely to occur on bigger hard drives where significant volumes of info are stored. When a drive is a part of a RAID and the info on it is duplicated on other drives for redundancy, it's more than likely that the bad file will be treated as a good one and it'll be copied on all the drives, making the harm permanent. A huge number of the file systems which run on web servers these days often are unable to identify corrupted files right away or they need time-consuming system checks through which the server isn't working.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Shared Hosting

We guarantee the integrity of the data uploaded in every single shared hosting account which is made on our cloud platform due to the fact that we employ the advanced ZFS file system. The aforementioned is the only one which was designed to avoid silent data corruption through a unique checksum for each and every file. We will store your information on multiple NVMe drives that operate in a RAID, so identical files will be present on several places at once. ZFS checks the digital fingerprint of all files on all of the drives in real time and in the event that the checksum of any file differs from what it has to be, the file system swaps that file with an undamaged copy from some other drive within the RAID. No other file system uses checksums, so it's easy for data to get silently damaged and the bad file to be duplicated on all drives with time, but since this can never happen on a server running ZFS, you won't have to worry about the integrity of your information.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Your semi-dedicated hosting account will be resistant to silent data corruption because all our storage servers use the efficient ZFS file system. What makes the aforementioned unique is that it employs checksums, or digital identifiers, in order to verify the integrity of every single file. When you upload content to your account, it will be placed on a couple of redundant drives employed in a RAID i.e. the files will be the same on all disks. All the copies of a particular file will have the same checksum on all hard drives and ZFS will compare the checksums of the duplicates right away, and if it discovers a mismatch, that would indicate that one of the copies is damaged, it'll substitute that file with a healthy copy from one of the other drives. Even if there's an unexpected power failure, the data on the servers won't be corrupted and there will not be any need for a time-consuming system check which other file systems perform following some malfunction, lengthening the time needed for the server to go back online. ZFS is the sole file system which can really protect your content from silent data corruption.