Data corruption is the damage of data due to various software or hardware problems. When a file gets corrupted, it will no longer function correctly, so an application will not start or shall give errors, a text file will be partially or fully unreadable, an archive file will be impossible to open and then unpack, etc. Silent data corruption is the process of information getting harmed without any acknowledgement by the system or an administrator, which makes it a significant problem for website hosting servers as problems are much more likely to happen on larger hard disk drives where vast volumes of information are located. When a drive is a part of a RAID and the data on it is replicated on other drives for redundancy, it is likely that the damaged file will be treated as a standard one and will be copied on all of the drives, making the damage permanent. A huge number of the file systems that run on web servers these days often are unable to find corrupted files immediately or they need time-consuming system checks during which the server isn't working.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Shared Hosting

If you host your Internet sites in a shared hosting account from our company, you don't have to worry about your data ever getting damaged. We can guarantee that due to the fact that our cloud hosting platform works with the cutting-edge ZFS file system. The latter is the only file system that works with checksums, or unique digital fingerprints, for each and every file. All the info that you upload will be stored in a RAID i.e. simultaneously on many different NVMe drives. All the file systems synchronize the files between the different drives with this kind of a setup, but there is no real guarantee that a file won't get corrupted. This can occur during the writing process on each drive and afterwards a damaged copy may be copied on all other drives. What is different on our platform is that ZFS compares the checksums of all files on all of the drives live and if a corrupted file is discovered, it is substituted with a good copy with the correct checksum from some other drive. That way, your data will remain unharmed no matter what, even if a whole drive fails.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Semi-dedicated Hosting

You will not need to deal with any silent data corruption issues if you purchase one of our semi-dedicated hosting packages as the ZFS file system that we take advantage of on our cloud hosting platform uses checksums to guarantee that all of the files are intact all the time. A checksum is a unique digital fingerprint that is assigned to each and every file saved 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 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 should be, it replaces that file with a healthy copy right away, avoiding any chance of the damaged copy to be synchronized on the remaining drives. ZFS is the sole file system out there that uses checksums, which makes it much more dependable than other file systems that cannot identify silent data corruption and duplicate bad files across drives.