Data corruption is the damage of information due to various hardware or software problems. Once a file is corrupted, it will no longer work correctly, so an application will not start or shall give errors, a text file can be partially or fully unreadable, an archive will be impossible to open and then unpack, etc. Silent data corruption is the process of data getting damaged without any acknowledgement by the system or an administrator, which makes it a serious problem for website hosting servers as problems are much more likely to occur on bigger hard disks where large volumes of info are placed. In case a drive is part of a RAID and the info on it is duplicated on other drives for redundancy, it's likely that the bad file will be treated as an ordinary one and it will be copied on all the drives, making the damage permanent. A lot of the file systems which operate on web servers nowadays often are not able to locate corrupted files immediately or they need time-consuming system checks through which the server is not working.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Cloud Hosting

We warrant the integrity of the info uploaded in each and every cloud hosting account which is made 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 prevent silent data corruption thanks to a unique checksum for every single file. We shall store your data on multiple SSD drives which function in a RAID, so the same files will be accessible on several places at the same time. ZFS checks the digital fingerprint of all of the files on all of the drives in real time and in case the checksum of any file differs from what it has to be, the file system swaps that file with an undamaged version from another drive from the RAID. There's no other file system which uses checksums, so it is possible for data to get silently damaged and the bad file to be replicated on all drives with time, but since this can never happen on a server running ZFS, you do not have to worry about 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 employ the advanced ZFS file system. What makes the aforementioned unique is that it employs checksums, or digital identifiers, to verify the integrity of each file. When you upload content to your account, it'll be placed on a couple of redundant drives working in a RAID i.e. the files will be the same across all disks. 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 copies in real time, so if it discovers a mismatch, which would indicate that one of the copies is damaged, it will replace that file with a healthy copy from one of the other disks. Even if there is a sudden power loss, the data on the servers won't become corrupted and there won't be any need for a time-consuming system check which other file systems perform after some malfunction, extending the time needed for the server to go back online. ZFS is the only file system which can truly protect your content from silent data corruption.