Data corruption is the damage of information because of various software or hardware fails. When a file is damaged, it will no longer function as it should, so an app will not start or will give errors, a text file shall be partially or completely unreadable, an archive will be impossible to open and then unpack, etc. Silent data corruption is the process of information getting damaged without any identification by the system or an administrator, which makes it a serious problem for website hosting servers as fails are much more likely to happen on larger hard disks where substantial volumes of information are located. In case a drive is a part of a RAID and the information on it is copied on other drives for redundancy, it's very likely that the damaged file will be treated as a healthy one and it will be duplicated on all of the drives, making the damage permanent. A huge number of the file systems that run on web servers nowadays often are not able to locate corrupted files right away or they need time-consuming system checks during which the server isn't working.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Cloud Hosting

If you host your Internet sites in a cloud hosting account with our company, you will not have to worry about any of your data ever getting corrupted. We can ensure that due to the fact that our cloud hosting platform works with the leading-edge ZFS file system. The latter is the only file system that works with checksums, or unique digital fingerprints, for each and every file. All the information that you upload will be saved in a RAID i.e. simultaneously on numerous NVMes. All the file systems synchronize the files between the different drives using this kind of a setup, but there is no real warranty that a file won't be corrupted. This could happen at the time of the writing process on any drive and after that a damaged copy can be copied on all other drives. What makes the difference on our platform is the fact that ZFS analyzes the checksums of all files on all of the drives live and when a corrupted file is identified, it is substituted with a good copy with the correct checksum from another drive. In this way, your information will remain undamaged no matter what, even if an entire drive fails.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Semi-dedicated Servers

You won't experience any silent data corruption issues whatsoever should you obtain one of our semi-dedicated server plans because the ZFS file system that we work with on our cloud hosting platform uses checksums in order to ensure that all files are undamaged all of the time. A checksum is a unique digital fingerprint that is assigned to each and every file stored on a server. Due to the fact that we store all content on multiple drives simultaneously, the same file has the same checksum on all drives and what ZFS does is that it compares the checksums between the different drives right away. In the event that 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 probability of the bad copy to be synchronized on the rest of the hard drives. ZFS is the sole file system you can get which uses checksums, which makes it much more dependable than other file systems which cannot detect silent data corruption and duplicate bad files across hard drives.