Data corruption is the unintended modification of a file or the losing of information that often occurs during reading or writing. The reason may be hardware or software fail, and consequently, a file can become partially or completely corrupted, so it'll no longer function properly since its bits will be scrambled or lacking. An image file, for instance, will no longer present an accurate image, but a random mix of colors, an archive will be impossible to unpack because its content will be unreadable, and so on. In the event that such an issue appears and it isn't recognized by the system or by an administrator, the data will become corrupted silently and when this happens on a disk drive that is a part of a RAID array where the information is synchronized between different drives, the corrupted file will be reproduced on all other drives and the damage will become permanent. A large number of widely used file systems either don't have real-time checks or do not have high quality ones which can detect a problem before the damage is done, so silent data corruption is a very common issue on web hosting servers where huge volumes of data are stored.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Cloud Website Hosting

We guarantee the integrity of the data uploaded in each cloud website hosting account that is created on our cloud platform due to the fact that we employ the advanced ZFS file system. The aforementioned is the only one which was designed to prevent silent data corruption via a unique checksum for every single file. We shall store your data on a number of NVMe drives which work in a RAID, so the exact same files will exist on several places simultaneously. 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 needs to be, the file system swaps that file with a healthy copy from a different drive in the RAID. No other file system uses checksums, so it is possible for data to be silently corrupted and the bad file to be duplicated on all drives over time, but since that can never happen on a server running ZFS, you will not have to concern yourself with the integrity of your info.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Semi-dedicated Hosting

You will not experience any kind of silent data corruption issues whatsoever if you obtain one of our semi-dedicated hosting packages due to the fact that the ZFS file system that we employ on our cloud hosting platform uses checksums to make sure that all files are intact all of the time. A checksum is a unique digital fingerprint which is given to each and every file saved on a server. Due to the fact that we store all content on a number of drives simultaneously, the same file has the same checksum on all of the drives and what ZFS does is that it compares the checksums between the different drives right away. When it detects that a file is corrupted and its checksum is different from what it should be, it replaces that file with a healthy copy without delay, avoiding any probability of the damaged copy to be synchronized on the remaining hard disks. ZFS is the sole file system on the market that uses checksums, which makes it much more reliable than other file systems that cannot detect silent data corruption and duplicate bad files across drives.