Data corruption is the damage of info because of various software or hardware fails. The moment a file is damaged, it will no longer work accurately, so an app will not start or will give errors, a text file could be partially or completely unreadable, an archive file will be impossible to open and unpack, etc. Silent data corruption is the process of info getting harmed without any identification by the system or an admin, which makes it a significant problem for hosting servers as fails are much more likely to occur on bigger hard disk drives where vast volumes of info are kept. When a drive is part of a RAID and the information on it is replicated on other drives for redundancy, it's very likely that the damaged file will be treated as an ordinary one and it will be duplicated on all of the drives, making the harm permanent. A lot of the file systems which operate on web servers today often are not able to detect corrupted files in real time or they need time-consuming system checks during which the server isn't working.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Cloud Website Hosting

We guarantee the integrity of the information uploaded in each and every cloud website hosting account which is generated on our cloud platform due to the fact that we work with the advanced ZFS file system. The latter is the only one which was designed to prevent silent data corruption through a unique checksum for each and every file. We'll store your information on a number of SSD drives which function in a RAID, so the very same files will be present on several places concurrently. ZFS checks the digital fingerprint of all the files on all drives in real time and in the event that the checksum of any file is different from what it needs to be, the file system swaps that file with a healthy copy from some other drive from the RAID. There's no other file system that uses checksums, so it's possible for data to be silently corrupted and the bad file to be duplicated on all drives with time, but since that can never happen on a server using ZFS, you don't have to concern yourself with the integrity of your info.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Semi-dedicated Hosting

We have avoided any possibility of files getting damaged silently as the servers where your semi-dedicated hosting account will be created employ a powerful file system known as ZFS. Its main advantage over alternative file systems is that it uses a unique checksum for each and every file - a digital fingerprint that is checked in real time. Since we keep all content on multiple SSD drives, ZFS checks if the fingerprint of a file on one drive matches the one on the remaining drives and the one it has stored. When there is a mismatch, the damaged copy is replaced with a good one from one of the other drives and considering that this happens instantly, there's no chance that a damaged copy could remain on our hosting servers or that it could be duplicated to the other hard drives in the RAID. None of the other file systems work with this type of checks and what's more, even during a file system check following a sudden power loss, none of them can detect silently corrupted files. In contrast, ZFS doesn't crash after an electrical power failure and the continual checksum monitoring makes a time-consuming file system check unneeded.