Data corruption is the damage of info because of various hardware or software failures. The moment a file gets corrupted, it will no longer function as it should, so an application will not start or will give errors, a text file shall be partially or fully unreadable, an archive will be impossible to open then unpack, etc. Silent data corruption is the process of info getting harmed without any acknowledgement by the system or an administrator, that makes it a serious problem for web hosting servers as failures are more likely to occur on larger in size hard drives where considerable volumes of information are located. In case a drive is a part of a RAID and the data on it is copied on other drives for redundancy, it's very likely that the bad file will be treated as a healthy one and it'll be duplicated on all drives, making the harm permanent. Lots of the file systems which run on web servers these days often are not able to recognize corrupted files immediately or they need time-consuming system checks through which the server isn't functioning.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Shared Website Hosting

We warrant the integrity of the data uploaded in each shared website hosting account that is made on our cloud platform because we use the advanced ZFS file system. The latter is the only one that was designed to avert silent data corruption through a unique checksum for each file. We shall store your data on a large number of SSD drives that operate in a RAID, so the same files will be available on several places concurrently. ZFS checks the digital fingerprint of all the files on all drives in real time and in the event that the checksum of any file differs from what it has to be, the file system replaces that file with an undamaged copy from some other drive inside the RAID. There's no other file system which uses checksums, so it is easy for data to be silently corrupted and the bad file to be duplicated on all drives over time, but since that can never happen on a server using ZFS, you do not have to concern yourself with the integrity of your info.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you purchase one of our semi-dedicated hosting packages, you will not have to worry about silent file corruption as we use ZFS - an advanced file system which keeps track of all files in real time. Each time you upload a file to your website hosting account, ZFS will assign a unique digital fingerprint to it - the so-called checksum. The file will be synced between a couple of SSD drives for redundancy, so if a drive fails, the other ones will take control. ZFS compares the checksum of all 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 right away, so there will be no threat for any part of your content at any time. In contrast, all the other file systems execute checks after a system malfunction, but since they don't use anything similar to the checksums which ZFS uses, they cannot detect silently corrupted files, so a corrupted copy could be replicated on the other drives as well and you could lose critical info. Since this isn't the case with ZFS, we are able to guarantee the integrity of every single file you upload no matter what.