Data corruption is the unintended transformation of a file or the losing of info that often occurs during reading or writing. The reason can be hardware or software fail, and consequently, a file may become partially or entirely corrupted, so it'll no longer work as it should since its bits shall be scrambled or lost. An image file, for example, will no longer display an authentic image, but a random mix of colors, an archive will be impossible to unpack as its content will be unreadable, and so on. If this kind of a problem appears and it's not found by the system or by an administrator, the data will be corrupted silently and when this happens on a drive which is part of a RAID array where the data is synced between various different drives, the corrupted file will be replicated on all of the other drives and the damage will be long term. A number of popular file systems either don't have real-time checks or don't have high quality ones which will detect a problem before the damage is done, so silent data corruption is a common issue on hosting servers where large amounts of info are stored.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Cloud Website Hosting

We guarantee the integrity of the information uploaded in every single cloud website hosting account which is created on our cloud platform because we work with the advanced ZFS file system. The aforementioned is the only one that was designed to prevent silent data corruption via a unique checksum for each file. We shall store your information on multiple NVMe drives which operate in a RAID, so the very same files will be present on several places at the same time. ZFS checks the digital fingerprint of all the files on all the drives in real time and in the event that the checksum of any file differs from what it needs to be, the file system swaps that file with an undamaged copy from another drive within the RAID. No other file system uses checksums, so it's possible for data to be silently corrupted and the bad file to be reproduced on all drives over time, but since this can never happen on a server using ZFS, you don't have to concern yourself with the integrity of your information.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Semi-dedicated Servers

We've avoided any probability of files getting corrupted silently as the servers where your semi-dedicated server account will be created employ a powerful file system known as ZFS. Its key advantage over alternative file systems is that it uses a unique checksum for each and every file - a digital fingerprint that is checked in real time. As we store all content on multiple NVMe drives, ZFS checks if the fingerprint of a file on one drive corresponds to the one on the other drives and the one it has stored. In case there's a mismatch, the bad copy is replaced with a good one from one of the other drives and since this happens instantly, there's no chance that a damaged copy can remain on our website hosting servers or that it could be copied to the other hard disks in the RAID. None of the other file systems employ this type of checks and furthermore, even during a file system check following a sudden electrical power failure, none of them can find silently corrupted files. In comparison, ZFS will not crash after a power loss and the continual checksum monitoring makes a lenghty file system check unneeded.