Data corruption is the damage of info caused by various software or hardware fails. After a file is damaged, it will no longer work accurately, so an app will not start or shall give errors, a text file shall be partially or entirely unreadable, an archive file will be impossible to open and unpack, etc. Silent data corruption is the process of data getting damaged without any acknowledgement by the system or an administrator, that makes it a significant problem for website hosting servers as problems are much more likely to happen on larger in size hard disk drives where considerable volumes of info are kept. When a drive is part of a RAID and the information on it is duplicated on other drives for redundancy, it's likely that the damaged file will be treated as an ordinary one and it will be duplicated on all drives, making the damage permanent. Lots of the file systems which run on web servers these days often are not able to locate corrupted files right away or they need time-consuming system checks during which the server is not working.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Website Hosting

We guarantee the integrity of the data uploaded in every website hosting account which is made on our cloud platform as we employ the advanced ZFS file system. The aforementioned is the only one that was designed to prevent silent data corruption through a unique checksum for each and every file. We will store your data on multiple NVMe drives that work in a RAID, so exactly the same files will exist on several places concurrently. ZFS checks the digital fingerprint of all of the files on all of the drives in real time and if the checksum of any file differs from what it has to be, the file system replaces that file with a healthy copy from another drive in the RAID. There's no other file system that uses checksums, so it's possible for data to become silently corrupted and the bad file to be replicated on all drives with time, but since that can never happen on a server running ZFS, you do not have to concern yourself with the integrity of your information.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Semi-dedicated Hosting

We've avoided any risk of files getting corrupted silently since the servers where your semi-dedicated hosting account will be created take advantage of a powerful file system named ZFS. Its basic advantage over other file systems is that it uses a unique checksum for each and every file - a digital fingerprint that's checked in real time. As we store all content on multiple NVMe drives, ZFS checks if the fingerprint of a file on one drive matches the one on the remaining drives and the one it has saved. In case there's a mismatch, the corrupted copy is replaced with a good one from one of the other drives and considering that this happens in real time, there's no chance that a corrupted copy can remain on our website hosting servers or that it could be copied to the other hard disks in the RAID. None of the other file systems use this kind of checks and in addition, even during a file system check after a sudden electrical power failure, none of them will detect silently corrupted files. In contrast, ZFS does not crash after a blackout and the regular checksum monitoring makes a lenghty file system check unneeded.