Data corruption is the damage of data due to various hardware or software failures. Once a file gets damaged, it will no longer work accurately, so an app will not start or will give errors, a text file could be partially or completely unreadable, an archive file will be impossible to open then unpack, etc. Silent data corruption is the process of info getting harmed without any identification by the system or an administrator, which makes it a serious problem for hosting servers as failures are much more likely to occur on bigger hard disks where considerable volumes of information are stored. If a drive is part of a RAID and the information on it is replicated on other drives for redundancy, it's very likely that the bad file will be treated as an ordinary one and will be duplicated on all the drives, making the harm permanent. A lot of the file systems that operate on web servers today often are unable to discover corrupted files immediately or they need time-consuming system checks during which the server isn't functioning.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Shared Hosting

We warrant the integrity of the info uploaded in every shared hosting account which is made on our cloud platform since we employ the advanced ZFS file system. The aforementioned is the only one which was designed to prevent silent data corruption using a unique checksum for each file. We shall store your information on multiple NVMe drives which work in a RAID, so the very same files will be accessible on several places concurrently. ZFS checks the digital fingerprint of all of the files on all the drives in real time and if the checksum of any file is different from what it should be, the file system swaps that file with a healthy version from some other drive from the RAID. There's no other file system that uses checksums, so it's possible for data to get silently corrupted and the bad file to be reproduced on all drives over time, but since this 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

We have avoided any risk of files getting corrupted silently due to the fact that the servers where your semi-dedicated hosting account will be created take advantage of a powerful file system called ZFS. Its key advantage over alternative file systems is that it uses a unique checksum for every single file - a digital fingerprint that's checked in real time. As we save 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 remaining drives and the one it has saved. If there's a mismatch, the bad copy is replaced with a good one from one of the other drives and because it happens instantly, there's no chance that a damaged copy could remain on our web servers or that it can be duplicated to the other hard drives in the RAID. None of the other file systems include this type of checks and what's more, even during a file system check following a sudden electrical power failure, none of them will identify silently corrupted files. In comparison, ZFS will not crash after a blackout and the continual checksum monitoring makes a time-consuming file system check unnecessary.