Data corruption is the damage of information caused by various hardware or software problems. Once a file gets damaged, it will no longer function accurately, so an application will not start or will give errors, a text file shall be partially or entirely unreadable, an archive will be impossible to open and then unpack, etc. Silent data corruption is the process of info getting harmed without any acknowledgement by the system or an admin, which makes it a significant problem for web hosting servers as failures are much more likely to occur on larger in size hard disk drives where considerable volumes of information are kept. If a drive is a part of a RAID and the information on it is copied on other drives for redundancy, it's likely that the damaged file will be treated as a healthy one and it'll be duplicated on all drives, making the harm permanent. A lot of the file systems which operate on web servers today often cannot identify corrupted files right away or they need time-consuming system checks through which the server isn't working.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Cloud Web Hosting

The integrity of the data that you upload to your new cloud web hosting account will be guaranteed by the ZFS file system which we take advantage of on our cloud platform. The vast majority of web hosting service providers, like our company, use multiple hard drives to keep content and since the drives work in a RAID, the exact same information is synchronized between the drives all of the time. When a file on a drive becomes corrupted for whatever reason, yet, it's likely that it will be duplicated on the other drives since alternative file systems do not have special checks for that. Unlike them, ZFS employs a digital fingerprint, or a checksum, for every file. In the event that a file gets damaged, its checksum will not match what ZFS has as a record for it, and the damaged copy shall be substituted with a good one from another hard disk. Because this happens right away, there is no risk for any of your files to ever get damaged.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Your semi-dedicated hosting account will be protected against silent data corruption as all of our storage servers use the advanced ZFS file system. What makes the aforementioned unique is that it employs checksums, or digital identifiers, so as to verify the integrity of each file. When you upload content to your account, it will be saved on several redundant drives employed in a RAID i.e. the files will be the same on all disks. All the copies of a particular file will have the same checksum on all hard disks and ZFS will compare the checksums of the copies quickly, and if it finds a mismatch, that will indicate that one of the copies is damaged, it'll replace that file with a good copy from one of the other drives. Even if there is a sudden power failure, the data on the servers will not be corrupted and there will not be any need for a time-consuming system check which other file systems perform following some breakdown, lengthening the time needed for the server to return online. ZFS is the sole file system which can really protect your content from silent data corruption.