Data corruption is the damage of data due to various hardware or software failures. Once a file gets corrupted, it will no longer work correctly, so an application will not start or shall give errors, a text file could be partially or fully unreadable, an archive will be impossible to open and then unpack, etc. Silent data corruption is the process of data getting damaged without any acknowledgement by the system or an administrator, that makes it a significant problem for web hosting servers as problems are very likely to happen on bigger hard drives where vast volumes of information are placed. When a drive is part of a RAID and the data on it is replicated on other drives for redundancy, it's likely that the bad file will be treated as an undamaged one and it will be copied on all the drives, making the harm permanent. A lot of the file systems which run on web servers these days often are unable to discover corrupted files in real time or they need time-consuming system checks during which the server isn't operational.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Website Hosting

We guarantee the integrity of the data uploaded in every website hosting account that is made on our cloud platform because we work with the advanced ZFS file system. The latter is the only one that was designed to avert silent data corruption through a unique checksum for each and every file. We shall store your data on a large number of NVMe drives which work in a RAID, so the exact same files will be present on several places concurrently. ZFS checks the digital fingerprint of all files on all drives in real time and in the event that the checksum of any file is different from what it should be, the file system replaces that file with an undamaged copy from a different drive within the RAID. There's no other file system that uses checksums, so it's easy for data to be silently damaged and the bad file to be reproduced on all drives with time, but since that can never happen on a server running ZFS, you don't have to worry about the integrity of your information.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Semi-dedicated Hosting

In case you acquire one of our semi-dedicated hosting solutions, you will not have to be concerned about silent file corruption because we use ZFS - an advanced file system which keeps track of all files in real time. Whenever you upload a file to your hosting account, ZFS will assign a unique digital fingerprint to it - the so-called checksum. This file will be synced between a number of NVMe drives for redundancy, so if one drive fails, the other ones will take over. ZFS compares the checksum of all of the copies on the different drives and when it detects a damaged copy, it replaces it with a healthy one from another drive. This is done right away, so there will be no risk for any part of your content at any moment. In comparison, all the other file systems execute checks after a system malfunction, but since they don't use anything similar to the checksums that ZFS uses, they can't detect silently corrupted files, so a corrupted copy could be replicated on the rest of the disks as well and you could lose critical information. Since this is not the case with ZFS, we can guarantee the integrity of each and every file you upload no matter what.