Data corruption is the accidental change of a file or the loss of information that usually occurs during reading or writing. The reason may be hardware or software fail, and consequently, a file can become partially or entirely corrupted, so it'll no longer function properly because its bits will be scrambled or lacking. An image file, for example, will no longer present a real image, but a random combination of colors, an archive will be impossible to unpack for the reason that its content will be unreadable, and so on. When such a problem appears and it is not recognized by the system or by an admin, the data will get corrupted silently and when this happens on a disk drive that is part of a RAID array where the information is synchronized between various drives, the corrupted file will be replicated on all the other drives and the damage will become permanent. Numerous widespread file systems either don't have real-time checks or don't have good ones that will detect a problem before the damage is done, so silent data corruption is a very common issue on hosting servers where substantial amounts of info are kept.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Website Hosting

We warrant the integrity of the info uploaded in every single website hosting account which is made on our cloud platform due to the fact that we work with the advanced ZFS file system. The aforementioned is the only one that was designed to avert silent data corruption using a unique checksum for every single file. We'll store your info on a number of NVMe drives which operate in a RAID, so the same files will be present on several places at once. ZFS checks the digital fingerprint of all 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 an undamaged version from a different drive from the RAID. No other file system uses checksums, so it's easy for data to be silently damaged and the bad file to be duplicated on all drives over time, but since that can never happen on a server using ZFS, you will not have to concern yourself with the integrity of your data.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Semi-dedicated Servers

You won't encounter any kind of silent data corruption issues whatsoever in case you get one of our semi-dedicated server solutions as the ZFS file system that we take advantage of on our cloud hosting platform uses checksums to ensure that all the files are undamaged all of the time. A checksum is a unique digital fingerprint which is allotted to each and every file kept on a server. Due to the fact that we store all content on a number of drives at the same time, 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. If 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 without delay, avoiding any chance of the damaged copy to be synchronized on the other hard drives. ZFS is the only file system out there which uses checksums, which makes it far superior to other file systems which cannot identify silent data corruption and copy bad files across drives.