Data corruption is the damage of data because of various software or hardware failures. Once a file is corrupted, it will no longer work accurately, so an application will not start or shall give errors, a text file will 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 acknowledgement by the system or an administrator, which makes it a significant problem for web hosting servers as problems are very likely to occur on bigger hard drives where vast volumes of info are placed. In case a drive is a part of a RAID and the info on it is copied on other drives for redundancy, it's very likely that the damaged file will be treated as an ordinary one and it will be copied on all of the drives, making the harm permanent. A lot of the file systems which operate on web servers nowadays often are unable to find corrupted files right away or they need time-consuming system checks through which the server isn't working.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Cloud Web Hosting

The integrity of the data which you upload to your new cloud web hosting account will be ensured by the ZFS file system that we take advantage of on our cloud platform. Most of the web hosting suppliers, including our firm, use multiple hard drives to keep content and considering that the drives work in a RAID, the exact same data is synchronized between the drives at all times. When a file on a drive is damaged for whatever reason, yet, it is likely that it will be reproduced on the other drives since alternative file systems don't have special checks for that. In contrast to them, ZFS applies a digital fingerprint, or a checksum, for every single file. In the event that a file gets damaged, its checksum won't match what ZFS has as a record for it, which means that the damaged copy shall be replaced with a good one from a different hard disk. Since this happens right away, there is no risk for any of your files to ever get corrupted.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Semi-dedicated Hosting

You will not experience any kind of silent data corruption issues in case you acquire one of our semi-dedicated hosting solutions because the ZFS file system that we work with on our cloud hosting platform uses checksums in order to ensure that all the files are undamaged all of the time. A checksum is a unique digital fingerprint which is assigned to each and every file stored on a server. Since we store all content on a number of drives simultaneously, the same file has the same checksum on all of the drives and what ZFS does is that it compares the checksums between the different drives in real time. If it detects that a file is corrupted and its checksum is different from what it should be, it replaces that file with a healthy copy without delay, avoiding any chance of the corrupted copy to be synchronized on the remaining hard drives. ZFS is the sole file system you will find which uses checksums, which makes it much more reliable than other file systems which cannot identify silent data corruption and copy bad files across hard drives.