Data corruption is the accidental transformation of a file or the loss of info that usually occurs during reading or writing. The reason may be hardware or software failure, and as a result, a file may become partially or entirely corrupted, so it will no longer function properly as its bits will be scrambled or lost. An image file, for instance, will no longer display an accurate image, but a random mix of colors, an archive will be impossible to unpack as its content will be unreadable, and so on. In the event that this kind of an issue occurs and it is not noticed by the system or by an administrator, the data will be corrupted silently and when this happens on a disk drive that is a part of a RAID array where the info is synchronized between various different drives, the corrupted file shall be duplicated on all of the other drives and the harm will become long term. Numerous popular file systems either don't feature real-time checks or don't have high quality ones that will detect a problem before the damage is done, so silent data corruption is a very common matter on internet hosting servers where large amounts of data are kept.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Shared Web Hosting

We guarantee the integrity of the info uploaded in any shared web hosting account which is created on our cloud platform because we employ the advanced ZFS file system. The latter is the only one that was designed to avert silent data corruption thanks to a unique checksum for each file. We will store your info on a large number of NVMe drives that operate in a RAID, so identical files will be present on several places simultaneously. ZFS checks the digital fingerprint of all files on all the drives in real time and in case the checksum of any file is different from what it has to be, the file system replaces that file with a healthy copy from another drive within the RAID. There's no other file system which 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 running ZFS, you won't have to worry about the integrity of your information.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Semi-dedicated Servers

We have avoided any probability of files getting damaged silently since the servers where your semi-dedicated server account will be created take advantage of a powerful file system called ZFS. Its main advantage over various other 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 NVMe drives, ZFS checks whether the fingerprint of a file on one drive matches the one on the rest of the drives and the one it has saved. In the event that there is a mismatch, the damaged copy is replaced with a good one from one of the other drives and considering that it happens right away, there is no chance that a corrupted copy could remain on our website hosting servers or that it could be copied to the other hard drives in the RAID. None of the other file systems include this kind of checks and what's more, even during a file system check after a sudden power loss, none of them will find silently corrupted files. In contrast, ZFS won't crash after a blackout and the continual checksum monitoring makes a lenghty file system check unneeded.