Data corruption is the damage of information because of various hardware or software fails. Once a file is damaged, it will no longer function correctly, so an application will not start or shall give errors, a text file shall be partially or completely unreadable, an archive file will be impossible to open and then unpack, etc. Silent data corruption is the process of info getting damaged without any acknowledgement by the system or an admin, that makes it a serious problem for website hosting servers as fails are more likely to occur on larger hard disk drives where large volumes of info are stored. When a drive is a part of a RAID and the information on it is replicated on other drives for redundancy, it's more than likely that the bad file will be treated as an ordinary one and it'll be duplicated on all drives, making the harm permanent. A huge number of the file systems which operate on web servers these days often are not able to recognize corrupted files in real time or they need time-consuming system checks through which the server is not operational.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Shared Hosting

In case you host your sites in a shared hosting account from our company, you won't have to worry about any of your data ever getting damaged. We can ensure that because our cloud hosting platform works with the cutting-edge ZFS file system. The aforementioned is the only file system which works with checksums, or unique digital fingerprints, for each file. All of the info that you upload will be stored in a RAID i.e. simultaneously on multiple NVMes. A lot of file systems synchronize the files between the separate drives using this type of a setup, but there is no real warranty that a file won't be corrupted. This could happen during the writing process on any drive and after that a corrupted copy can be copied on the other drives. What is different on our platform is the fact that ZFS analyzes the checksums of all files on all of the drives immediately and when a corrupted file is found, it is swapped with a good copy with the correct checksum from some other drive. That way, your info will remain intact no matter what, even if a whole drive fails.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Semi-dedicated Servers

You won't need to deal with any silent data corruption issues whatsoever if you acquire one of our semi-dedicated server plans since the ZFS file system that we use on our cloud hosting platform uses checksums in order to guarantee that all the files are undamaged at all times. A checksum is a unique digital fingerprint that is assigned to each and every file saved on a server. As we store all content on multiple 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 has to be, it replaces that file with a healthy copy right away, avoiding any possibility of the damaged copy to be synchronized on the rest of the drives. ZFS is the only file system out there which uses checksums, which makes it much more dependable than other file systems that are unable to detect silent data corruption and copy bad files across hard drives.