Data corruption is the damage of data because of various hardware or software problems. Once a file is damaged, it will no longer function as it should, so an application will not start or shall give errors, a text file can be partially or fully unreadable, an archive file will be impossible to open and unpack, etc. Silent data corruption is the process of information getting damaged without any acknowledgement by the system or an administrator, that makes it a serious problem for website hosting servers as fails are more likely to occur on bigger hard drives where large volumes of info are stored. In case a drive is a part of a RAID and the data on it is duplicated on other drives for redundancy, it's very likely that the bad file will be treated as an ordinary one and will be copied on all the drives, making the harm permanent. Lots of the file systems which operate on web servers these days often cannot find corrupted files immediately or they need time-consuming system checks through which the server is not working.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Cloud Web Hosting

If you host your Internet sites in a cloud web hosting account with our firm, you do not have to worry about any of your data ever getting damaged. We can ensure that due to the fact that our cloud hosting platform employs the leading-edge ZFS file system. The aforementioned is the only file system that uses checksums, or unique digital fingerprints, for each file. All of the info that you upload will be saved in a RAID i.e. simultaneously on many NVMes. A lot of file systems synchronize the files between the separate drives using this kind of a setup, but there is no real guarantee that a file won't be corrupted. This may happen throughout the writing process on any drive and afterwards a bad copy can be copied on the other drives. What makes the difference on our platform is that ZFS analyzes the checksums of all files on all drives live and if a corrupted file is discovered, it is swapped with a good copy with the correct checksum from some other drive. In this way, your info will remain undamaged no matter what, even if an entire drive fails.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Semi-dedicated Hosting

In case you get one of our semi-dedicated hosting plans, you will not need to be concerned about silent file corruption because we use ZFS - a high level file system that monitors all files in real time. Whenever you upload a file to your web hosting account, ZFS will assign a unique digital fingerprint to it - the so-called checksum. This file will be synchronized between several NVMe drives for redundancy, so if a drive fails, the other ones will take over. ZFS compares the checksum of all the copies on the different drives and if it detects a corrupted copy, it replaces it with a healthy one from another drive. This happens immediately, so there will be no risk for any part of your content at any time. In contrast, other file systems execute checks after a system failure, but since they do not use anything similar to the checksums which ZFS uses, they can't detect silently corrupted files, so a bad copy can be replicated on the rest of the disks as well and you can lose precious info. As this isn't the case with ZFS, we are able to guarantee the integrity of each file you upload no matter what.