Data corruption is the damage of info caused by various hardware or software fails. After a file is corrupted, it will no longer work correctly, so an application will not start or will give errors, a text file will be partially or entirely unreadable, an archive file will be impossible to open then unpack, etc. Silent data corruption is the process of data getting harmed without any identification by the system or an admin, that makes it a serious problem for hosting servers as failures are more likely to occur on bigger hard disks where vast volumes of information are placed. When a drive is a part of a RAID and the information on it is copied on other drives for redundancy, it's more than likely that the damaged file will be treated as a regular one and it'll be copied on all drives, making the damage permanent. A lot of the file systems that operate on web servers nowadays often cannot detect corrupted files immediately or they need time-consuming system checks through which the server isn't operational.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Cloud Website Hosting

We warrant the integrity of the data uploaded in each cloud website hosting account which is made on our cloud platform as we employ the advanced ZFS file system. The aforementioned is the only one that was designed to avoid silent data corruption via a unique checksum for each and every file. We will store your information on a large number of NVMe drives that operate in a RAID, so identical files will be available on several places concurrently. ZFS checks the digital fingerprint of all of the files on all the drives in real time and in case the checksum of any file differs from what it needs to be, the file system swaps that file with an undamaged version from another drive inside the RAID. There's no other file system that uses checksums, so it is easy for data to get silently damaged and the bad file to be duplicated on all drives with time, but since that can never happen on a server running ZFS, you don't have to worry about the integrity of your data.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Your semi-dedicated hosting account will be protected against silent data corruption as all of our storage servers work with the efficient ZFS file system. What makes the aforementioned unique is that it employs checksums, or digital identifiers, to ensure the integrity of every single file. When you upload content to your account, it'll be kept on a couple of redundant drives in a RAID i.e. the files shall be the same across all drives. All the copies of a specific file will feature the same checksum on all hard disks and ZFS will compare the checksums of the duplicates right away, so if it detects a mismatch, that will indicate that one of the copies is damaged, it'll swap that file with a good copy from one of the other drives. Even if there's an unexpected power failure, the data on the servers won't get 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 go back online. ZFS is the only file system that can really protect your content from silent data corruption.