Data corruption is the damage of info caused by various software or hardware failures. When a file is damaged, it will no longer function accurately, so an app will not start or will give errors, a text file shall be partially or fully unreadable, an archive file will be impossible to open and 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 problems are more likely to happen on bigger hard drives where vast volumes of info are kept. If a drive is a part of a RAID and the data on it is duplicated on other drives for redundancy, it is likely that the bad file will be treated as an undamaged one and it'll be duplicated on all drives, making the harm permanent. Lots of the file systems that run on web servers nowadays often are not able to locate corrupted files in real time or they need time-consuming system checks through which the server isn't operational.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Hosting

We guarantee the integrity of the info uploaded in any hosting account that is generated on our cloud platform due to the fact that we work with the advanced ZFS file system. The aforementioned is the only one that was designed to avoid silent data corruption via a unique checksum for every single file. We will store your info on multiple NVMe drives that operate in a RAID, so exactly the same files will be available on several places at once. ZFS checks the digital fingerprint of all files on all drives in real time and if the checksum of any file is different from what it needs to be, the file system swaps that file with a healthy version from another drive within the RAID. No other file system uses checksums, so it's easy for data to be silently damaged and the bad file to be replicated on all drives over time, but since this can never happen on a server using ZFS, you won't have to concern yourself with the integrity of your information.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Semi-dedicated Servers

Your semi-dedicated server account will be protected against silent data corruption because all our storage servers use the state-of-the-art ZFS file system. What makes the latter unique is that it uses checksums, or digital identifiers, so as to guarantee the integrity of each file. When you upload content to your account, it will be placed on several redundant drives being employed in a RAID i.e. the files will be the same across all disks. All the copies of a particular file will feature the same checksum on all drives and ZFS will compare the checksums of the duplicates right away, and if it finds a mismatch, that would indicate that one of the copies is damaged, it'll substitute that file with a good copy from one of the other disks. Even if there's an unforeseen blackout, the data on the servers will not be corrupted and there won't be any need for a time-consuming system check which other file systems perform following some breakdown, prolonging the time needed for the server to return online. ZFS is the file system which can truly protect your content from silent data corruption.