Data corruption is the damage of data because of various software or hardware fails. The moment a file is damaged, it will no longer work accurately, so an app will not start or shall give errors, a text file will be partially or entirely unreadable, an archive will be impossible to open then unpack, etc. Silent data corruption is the process of information getting damaged without any identification by the system or an admin, which makes it a significant problem for hosting servers as failures are more likely to happen on larger hard drives where large volumes of information are stored. In case a drive is a part of a RAID and the info on it is duplicated on other drives for redundancy, it is more than likely that the bad file will be treated as an ordinary one and will be duplicated on all drives, making the harm permanent. A lot of the file systems that run on web servers these days often cannot detect corrupted files right away or they need time-consuming system checks through which the server isn't operational.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Shared Hosting

We warrant the integrity of the data uploaded in every single shared hosting account that is generated on our cloud platform due to the fact that we employ the advanced ZFS file system. The latter is the only one that was designed to avoid silent data corruption through a unique checksum for every single file. We'll store your data on a number of SSD drives that work in a RAID, so the very same files will be accessible on several places at the same time. ZFS checks the digital fingerprint of all files on all of the drives in real time and if the checksum of any file differs from what it needs to be, the file system replaces that file with a healthy copy from another drive within the RAID. There's no other file system that uses checksums, so it is possible for data to get silently damaged and the bad file to be replicated on all drives with time, but since this can never happen on a server using ZFS, you won't have to worry about the integrity of your data.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Semi-dedicated Servers

You won't have to deal with any kind of silent data corruption issues in case you obtain one of our semi-dedicated server solutions since the ZFS file system that we work with on our cloud hosting platform uses checksums to guarantee that all of your files are undamaged at all times. A checksum is a unique digital fingerprint that is assigned to each and every file kept on a server. Since we store all content on multiple drives simultaneously, the same file has the same checksum on all the drives and what ZFS does is that it compares the checksums between the different drives right away. If it detects that a file is corrupted and its checksum is different from what it has to be, it replaces that file with a healthy copy without delay, avoiding any chance of the damaged copy to be synchronized on the rest of the hard disks. ZFS is the only file system out there that uses checksums, which makes it much more reliable than other file systems which cannot detect silent data corruption and duplicate bad files across drives.