Data corruption is the damage of data caused by various hardware or software failures. Once a file gets corrupted, it will no longer work correctly, so an app will not start or shall give errors, a text file shall be partially or entirely unreadable, an archive will be impossible to open and then unpack, etc. Silent data corruption is the process of information getting harmed without any identification by the system or an admin, which makes it a serious problem for hosting servers as failures are very likely to happen on larger hard drives where vast volumes of info are located. In case a drive is a part of a RAID and the information on it is replicated on other drives for redundancy, it's likely that the damaged file will be treated as an ordinary one and it will be duplicated on all the drives, making the harm permanent. A lot of the file systems that run on web servers nowadays often are unable to recognize corrupted files in real time or they need time-consuming system checks through which the server is not functioning.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Cloud Website Hosting

If you host your sites in a cloud website hosting account with our firm, you will not need to worry about any of your data ever getting corrupted. We can guarantee that as our cloud hosting platform works with the state-of-the-art ZFS file system. The aforementioned is the only file system which uses checksums, or unique digital fingerprints, for each and every file. All of the info that you upload will be saved in a RAID i.e. simultaneously on multiple NVMes. Many file systems synchronize the files between the different drives using such a setup, but there is no real guarantee that a file won't be corrupted. This could occur during the writing process on each drive and after that a damaged copy can be copied on all other drives. What makes the difference on our platform is the fact that ZFS examines the checksums of all files on all the drives right away and when a corrupted file is located, it's replaced with a good copy with the correct checksum from some other drive. This way, your info will remain unharmed no matter what, even if a whole drive fails.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Semi-dedicated Servers

Your semi-dedicated server account will be resistant to silent data corruption because all of our storage servers work with the reliable ZFS file system. What makes the aforementioned unique is that it uses checksums, or digital identifiers, to ensure the integrity of each and every file. When you upload content to your account, it will be stored on a couple of redundant drives working in a RAID i.e. the files will be the same on all disks. All of the copies of a particular file will feature the same checksum on all hard drives and ZFS will compare the checksums of the duplicates right away, and if it finds a mismatch, which will indicate that one of the copies is corrupted, it'll replace that file with a good copy from one of the other drives. Even if there's a sudden power failure, the data on the servers won't get corrupted and there will not be any need for a time-consuming system check that other file systems perform after some malfunction, prolonging the time needed for the server to return online. ZFS is the sole file system which can truly protect your content from silent data corruption.