Data corruption is the damage of info caused by various software or hardware failures. When a file is corrupted, it will no longer work accurately, so an app will not start or shall give errors, a text file can be partially or completely unreadable, an archive will be impossible to open and unpack, etc. Silent data corruption is the process of data getting harmed without any acknowledgement by the system or an admin, which makes it a significant problem for hosting servers as fails are more likely to occur on larger in size hard disk drives where substantial volumes of info are kept. If a drive is a part of a RAID and the info on it is duplicated on other drives for redundancy, it's very likely that the bad file will be treated as a regular one and it'll be copied on all the drives, making the harm permanent. A lot of the file systems which run on web servers these days often are unable to discover corrupted files immediately or they need time-consuming system checks through which the server isn't functioning.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Shared Web Hosting

In case you host your websites in a shared web hosting account with our firm, you don't need to worry about your data ever getting damaged. We can ensure that since our cloud hosting platform employs the reliable ZFS file system. The aforementioned is the only file system that uses checksums, or unique digital fingerprints, for each and every file. All the info that you upload will be kept in a RAID i.e. simultaneously on many NVMe drives. All the file systems synchronize the files between the separate drives using this kind of a setup, but there's no real guarantee that a file won't be corrupted. This can occur at the time of the writing process on any drive and then a bad copy may be copied on the rest of the drives. What is different on our platform is the fact that ZFS compares the checksums of all files on all the drives immediately and if a corrupted file is found, it's substituted with a good copy with the correct checksum from another drive. That way, your information will continue to be undamaged no matter what, even if a whole drive fails.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Semi-dedicated Hosting

You will not need to deal with any kind of silent data corruption issues whatsoever in case you acquire one of our semi-dedicated hosting solutions due to the fact that the ZFS file system that we work with on our cloud hosting platform uses checksums in order to make sure that all files are intact all the time. A checksum is a unique digital fingerprint which is given to each and every file saved on a server. As we store all content on multiple drives simultaneously, the same file uses the same checksum on all of the drives and what ZFS does is that it compares the checksums between the different drives right away. In the event that 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 right away, avoiding any probability of the corrupted copy to be synchronized on the remaining hard disks. ZFS is the sole file system you can get that uses checksums, which makes it far superior to other file systems which are not able to detect silent data corruption and copy bad files across hard drives.