Data corruption is the damage of information due to various software or hardware fails. Once a file is damaged, it will no longer work properly, so an application will not start or shall give errors, a text file will be partially or fully unreadable, an archive will be impossible to open then unpack, etc. Silent data corruption is the process of information getting harmed without any identification by the system or an administrator, which makes it a significant problem for website hosting servers as problems are more likely to happen on bigger hard disk drives where significant volumes of info are placed. In case a drive is a part of a RAID and the info on it is replicated on other drives for redundancy, it's more than likely that the bad file will be treated as a healthy one and it will be copied on all the drives, making the harm permanent. A lot of the file systems which operate on web servers these days often cannot locate corrupted files in real time or they need time-consuming system checks through which the server isn't working.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Shared Hosting

We warrant the integrity of the information uploaded in each shared hosting account that is generated on our cloud platform due to the fact that we use the advanced ZFS file system. The aforementioned is the only one which was designed to avoid silent data corruption via a unique checksum for each file. We will store your info on a large number of NVMe drives that operate in a RAID, so exactly the same files will be present on several places at the same time. ZFS checks the digital fingerprint of all files on all the drives in real time and if the checksum of any file is different from what it should be, the file system swaps that file with an undamaged version from a different drive within the RAID. No other file system uses checksums, so it is easy for data to be silently damaged and the bad file to be duplicated on all drives with time, but since that can never happen on a server using ZFS, you won't have to concern yourself with the integrity of your data.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Semi-dedicated Servers

We have avoided any chance of files getting corrupted silently as the servers where your semi-dedicated server account will be created work with a powerful file system called ZFS. Its main advantage over various other file systems is that it uses a unique checksum for each file - a digital fingerprint that is checked in real time. Since we keep all content on multiple NVMe drives, ZFS checks whether the fingerprint of a file on one drive corresponds to the one on the other drives and the one it has stored. In the event that there's a mismatch, the corrupted copy is replaced with a good one from one of the other drives and because this happens in real time, there is no chance that a damaged copy can remain on our web hosting servers or that it could be duplicated to the other hard drives in the RAID. None of the other file systems use this type of checks and what is more, even during a file system check after a sudden power loss, none of them will find silently corrupted files. In comparison, ZFS will not crash after a power failure and the constant checksum monitoring makes a time-consuming file system check obsolete.