Data corruption is the damage of information due to various software or hardware problems. After a file is damaged, it will no longer work as it should, so an app will not start or shall give errors, a text file could be partially or fully unreadable, an archive will be impossible to open and unpack, etc. Silent data corruption is the process of data getting damaged without any identification by the system or an admin, which makes it a serious problem for web hosting servers as fails are very likely to happen on larger in size hard disk drives where large volumes of information are placed. If a drive is part of a RAID and the information on it is replicated on other drives for redundancy, it's more than likely that the damaged file will be treated as an undamaged one and it'll be copied on all the drives, making the harm permanent. A huge number of the file systems which run on web servers these days often cannot detect corrupted files in real time or they need time-consuming system checks during which the server isn't operational.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Cloud Hosting

If you host your sites in a cloud hosting account from our firm, you don't have to worry about your data ever getting damaged. We can ensure that due to the fact that our cloud hosting platform uses the amazing ZFS file system. The aforementioned is the only file system which uses checksums, or unique digital fingerprints, for each and every file. All data that you upload will be kept in a RAID i.e. simultaneously on many different NVMes. All file systems synchronize the files between the different drives with this type of a setup, but there is no real guarantee that a file will not get corrupted. This could occur during the writing process on any drive and afterwards a damaged copy can be copied on the other drives. What makes the difference on our platform is that ZFS analyzes the checksums of all files on all drives immediately and in the event that a corrupted file is located, it is substituted with a good copy with the correct checksum from another drive. In this way, your info will remain undamaged no matter what, even if an entire drive fails.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Your semi-dedicated hosting account will be protected against silent data corruption since all of our storage servers work with the state-of-the-art ZFS file system. What makes the aforementioned unique is that it uses checksums, or digital identifiers, to guarantee the integrity of every single 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 drives. All of the copies of a specific file will have the same checksum on all hard drives and ZFS will compare the checksums of the duplicates in real time, and if it finds a mismatch, that would indicate that one of the copies is damaged, it'll replace that file with a healthy copy from one of the other disks. Even if there's an unforeseen 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 after some breakdown, lengthening the time needed for the server to get back online. ZFS is the only file system which can truly protect your content from silent data corruption.