Data corruption is the damage of info because of various hardware or software fails. Once a file is damaged, it will no longer work as it should, so an application will not start or will give errors, a text file shall be partially or fully unreadable, an archive file will be impossible to open then 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 website hosting servers as failures are very likely to happen on larger in size hard disks where substantial volumes of information are stored. In case a drive is part of a RAID and the data on it is copied on other drives for redundancy, it's very likely that the damaged file will be treated as a standard one and will be duplicated on all drives, making the harm permanent. Lots of the file systems that run on web servers these days often are unable to recognize corrupted files right away or they need time-consuming system checks during which the server isn't operational.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Cloud Hosting

If you host your websites in a cloud hosting account with our firm, you do not have to worry about your data ever getting damaged. We can ensure that because our cloud hosting platform works with the state-of-the-art ZFS file system. The latter is the only file system that uses checksums, or unique digital fingerprints, for every single file. All the info that you upload will be saved in a RAID i.e. simultaneously on many different NVMe drives. All file systems synchronize the files between the separate drives using this type of a setup, but there's no real warranty that a file will not be corrupted. This could occur throughout the writing process on each drive and then a damaged copy can be copied on the rest of the drives. What is different on our platform is that ZFS examines the checksums of all files on all of the drives in real time and in the event that a corrupted file is found, it's replaced with a good copy with the correct checksum from another drive. By doing this, your info will stay undamaged no matter what, even if a whole drive fails.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Your semi-dedicated hosting account will be protected against silent data corruption as all our storage servers use the innovative ZFS file system. What makes the aforementioned unique is that it uses checksums, or digital identifiers, to verify the integrity of every single file. When you upload content to your account, it will be stored on a couple of redundant drives being employed in a RAID i.e. the files will be the same across all disk drives. All copies of a particular file will feature the same checksum on all drives and ZFS will compare the checksums of the copies quickly, and if it detects a mismatch, which would indicate that one of the copies is damaged, it'll replace that file with a good copy from one of the other disks. Even if there is an unforeseen power loss, the data on the servers will not be corrupted and there won't be any need for a time-consuming system check which other file systems perform following some malfunction, lengthening the time needed for the server to get back online. ZFS is the file system which can really protect your content from silent data corruption.