Data corruption is the accidental modification of a file or the losing of info that often occurs during reading or writing. The reason may be hardware or software fail, and as a result, a file could become partially or completely corrupted, so it'll no longer function properly because its bits will be scrambled or lost. An image file, for example, will no longer show a real image, but a random mix of colors, an archive will be impossible to unpack as its content will be unreadable, and so on. In case such an issue appears and it is not found by the system or by an admin, the data will be corrupted silently and in case this happens on a disk drive which is part of a RAID array where the information is synchronized between various drives, the corrupted file shall be duplicated on all of the other drives and the damage will become permanent. Numerous widespread file systems either don't have real-time checks or don't have high quality ones that will detect an issue before the damage is done, so silent data corruption is a very common issue on web hosting servers where substantial amounts of info are stored.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Shared Hosting

We guarantee the integrity of the data uploaded in each and every shared hosting account that is created on our cloud platform due to the fact that we use the advanced ZFS file system. The aforementioned is the only one which was designed to prevent silent data corruption thanks to a unique checksum for every single file. We will store your data on a large number of NVMe drives that work in a RAID, so exactly the same files will be accessible on several places at once. ZFS checks the digital fingerprint of all the files on all the drives in real time and in case the checksum of any file is different from what it has to be, the file system swaps that file with a healthy copy from some other 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 duplicated on all drives with time, but since that can never happen on a server running ZFS, you do not have to concern yourself with the integrity of your information.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Your semi-dedicated hosting account will be shielded from silent data corruption because all our storage servers work with the efficient ZFS file system. What makes the aforementioned unique is that it uses checksums, or digital identifiers, so as to guarantee the integrity of every single file. When you upload content to your account, it'll be saved on a couple of redundant drives working in a RAID i.e. the files will be the same across all drives. All of the copies of a given file will have the same checksum on all drives and ZFS will compare the checksums of the copies quickly, so if it identifies a mismatch, that will indicate that one of the copies is damaged, it'll swap that file with a healthy copy from one of the other disks. Even if there is a sudden power failure, the data on the servers won't become corrupted and there won't be any need for a time-consuming system check that other file systems perform following some malfunction, lengthening the time needed for the server to get back online. ZFS is the sole file system that can truly protect your content from silent data corruption.