Data corruption is the damage of information caused by various hardware or software problems. Once a file gets damaged, it will no longer work accurately, so an app will not start or will give errors, a text file can be partially or entirely unreadable, an archive will be impossible to open and unpack, etc. Silent data corruption is the process of information getting damaged without any acknowledgement by the system or an administrator, that makes it a serious problem for hosting servers as problems are much more likely to occur on bigger hard disks where large volumes of info are kept. When a drive is 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 a standard one and it'll be duplicated on all drives, making the harm permanent. A huge number of the file systems that operate on web servers these days often are unable to locate 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 every single shared website hosting account that is created 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 avert silent data corruption using a unique checksum for every single file. We will store your info on multiple SSD drives which function in a RAID, so the same files will be accessible on several places simultaneously. ZFS checks the digital fingerprint of all files on all the drives in real time and in case the checksum of any file is different from what it should be, the file system replaces that file with an undamaged version from another drive within the RAID. No other file system uses checksums, so it's possible for data to become silently corrupted and the bad file to be duplicated on all drives over time, but since that can never happen on a server running ZFS, you won't have to worry about the integrity of your data.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you obtain one of our semi-dedicated hosting solutions, you will not have to be concerned about silent data corruption as we use ZFS - an advanced file system which monitors all of 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. The file will be synchronized between a number of SSD drives for redundancy, so if one drive fails, the other ones will take control. ZFS compares the checksum of all the copies on the different drives and if it detects a damaged copy, it replaces it with a healthy one from another drive. This is done immediately, so there will be no risk for any part of your content at any time. In contrast, alternative file systems perform checks after a system malfunction, but since they don't use anything similar to the checksums that ZFS uses, they will not detect silently corrupted files, so a corrupted copy may be replicated on the rest of the disks as well and you can lose precious data. Since this isn't the case with ZFS, we guarantee the integrity of each and every file you upload no matter what.