Data corruption is the damage of info due to various hardware or software fails. When a file is corrupted, it will no longer function properly, so an app will not start or will give errors, a text file could be partially or fully unreadable, an archive 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 admin, that makes it a significant problem for website hosting servers as failures are very likely to happen on bigger hard disks where vast volumes of info are stored. In case a drive is part of a RAID and the information on it is replicated on other drives for redundancy, it is more than likely that the damaged file will be treated as a standard one and it will be duplicated on all of the drives, making the harm permanent. Lots of the file systems which run on web servers these days often are unable to detect corrupted files in real time or they need time-consuming system checks during which the server isn't working.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Cloud Website Hosting

We warrant the integrity of the data uploaded in every single cloud website hosting account that is created on our cloud platform because we use the advanced ZFS file system. The latter is the only one which was designed to avoid silent data corruption through a unique checksum for each and every file. We shall store your information on a number of NVMe drives which function in a RAID, so the very same files will exist on several places concurrently. ZFS checks the digital fingerprint of all of the files on all the drives in real time and in the event that the checksum of any file differs from what it should be, the file system replaces that file with a healthy version from some other drive in the RAID. There's no other file system that uses checksums, so it's easy for data to become silently damaged and the bad file to be replicated on all drives over time, but since this can never happen on a server using ZFS, you won't have to concern yourself with the integrity of your information.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Semi-dedicated Servers

In case you acquire one of our semi-dedicated server solutions, you will not need to worry about silent data corruption as we use ZFS - an advanced file system that keeps track of all files in real time. Each time you upload a file to your account, ZFS will assign a unique digital fingerprint to it - the so-called checksum. The file will be synced between multiple NVMe drives for redundancy, so if a drive fails, the other ones will take control. ZFS compares the checksum of all copies on the different drives and in case it detects a damaged copy, it replaces it with a healthy one from a different drive. This happens immediately, so there will be no threat for any part of your content at any moment. By comparison, all the other file systems execute checks after a system malfunction, but since they do not use anything similar to the checksums that ZFS uses, they cannot detect silently corrupted files, so a bad copy can be replicated on the remaining drives as well and you can lose important data. Since this isn't the case with ZFS, we're able to guarantee the integrity of each and every file you upload no matter what.