Data corruption is the accidental modification of a file or the loss of info which often occurs during reading or writing. The reason may be hardware or software fail, and as a result, a file can become partially or fully corrupted, so it will no longer function properly because its bits shall be scrambled or lacking. An image file, for example, will no longer present a true image, but a random mix of colors, an archive will be impossible to unpack since its content will be unreadable, and so on. In case this kind of an issue occurs and it isn't recognized by the system or by an admin, the data will become corrupted silently and when this happens on a disk drive that's a part of a RAID array where the data is synced between various drives, the corrupted file shall be replicated on all the other drives and the harm will be long term. A number of widely used file systems either do not offer real-time checks or do not have high quality ones which can detect an issue before the damage is done, so silent data corruption is a rather common problem on internet hosting servers where large volumes of data are stored.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Shared Website Hosting

We guarantee the integrity of the information uploaded in each and every shared website hosting account which is generated on our cloud platform as we use the advanced ZFS file system. The aforementioned is the only one that was designed to prevent silent data corruption via a unique checksum for every single file. We shall store your info on a number of NVMe drives that function in a RAID, so the very same files will exist on several places simultaneously. 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 is different from what it needs to be, the file system replaces that file with an undamaged version from a different drive from the RAID. There's no other file system that uses checksums, so it is possible for data to get silently corrupted and the bad file to be reproduced on all drives over 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 shielded from silent data corruption as all of our storage servers employ the reliable 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'll be stored on several redundant drives working in a RAID i.e. the files shall be the same on all drives. All of the copies of a specific file will have the same checksum on all hard disks and ZFS will compare the checksums of the duplicates in real time, so if it registers a mismatch, that will indicate that one of the copies is damaged, it will substitute that file with a healthy copy from one of the other disks. Even if there's a sudden power loss, the data on the servers won't be corrupted and there won't be any need for a time-consuming system check that other file systems perform following some failure, prolonging the time needed for the server to get back online. ZFS is the sole file system which can truly protect your content from silent data corruption.