Data corruption is the damage of information caused by various hardware or software fails. After a file is corrupted, it will no longer function accurately, so an app will not start or shall give errors, a text file could be partially or completely unreadable, an archive file will be impossible to open and unpack, etc. Silent data corruption is the process of info getting damaged without any identification by the system or an administrator, that makes it a serious problem for website hosting servers as problems are more likely to happen on larger hard disk drives where significant volumes of information are placed. If a drive is a part of a RAID and the data on it is copied on other drives for redundancy, it's more than likely that the damaged file will be treated as a standard one and will be duplicated on all of the drives, making the harm permanent. A lot of the file systems which run on web servers these days often are unable to locate corrupted files right away or they need time-consuming system checks during which the server is not functioning.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Cloud Website Hosting

We guarantee the integrity of the info uploaded in every cloud website hosting account that is made on our cloud platform since we work with the advanced ZFS file system. The latter is the only one that was designed to prevent silent data corruption through a unique checksum for each file. We'll store your info on a large number of NVMe drives that function in a RAID, so the exact same files will be accessible on several places at once. ZFS checks the digital fingerprint of all of the files on all the drives in real time and if the checksum of any file differs from what it has to be, the file system swaps that file with an undamaged copy from a different drive from the RAID. There's no other file system that uses checksums, so it's possible for data to be silently damaged and the bad file to be replicated on all drives over time, but since that can never happen on a server using ZFS, you won't have to worry about the integrity of your info.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Semi-dedicated Servers

We have avoided any chance of files getting damaged silently since the servers where your semi-dedicated server account will be created use a powerful file system called ZFS. Its key advantage over other file systems is that it uses a unique checksum for each file - a digital fingerprint that is checked in real time. As we store all content on a number of NVMe drives, ZFS checks if the fingerprint of a file on one drive corresponds to the one on the rest of the drives and the one it has stored. In case there's a mismatch, the damaged copy is replaced with a healthy one from one of the other drives and considering that it happens in real time, there's no chance that a corrupted copy could remain on our website hosting servers or that it could be duplicated to the other drives in the RAID. None of the other file systems employ such checks and what's more, even during a file system check following a sudden power loss, none of them can find silently corrupted files. In comparison, ZFS won't crash after a blackout and the regular checksum monitoring makes a time-consuming file system check unnecessary.