Data corruption is the damage of information due to various software or hardware problems. After a file is damaged, it will no longer function as it should, so an app will not start or will give errors, a text file shall be partially or completely unreadable, an archive will be impossible to open and then unpack, etc. Silent data corruption is the process of data getting damaged without any acknowledgement by the system or an admin, that makes it a significant problem for website hosting servers as problems are much more likely to occur on larger in size hard disk drives where significant volumes of information are kept. In case a drive is a part of a RAID and the information on it is copied on other drives for redundancy, it's likely that the bad file will be treated as a healthy one and it'll be duplicated on all the drives, making the damage permanent. A lot of the file systems which run on web servers these days often are unable to discover corrupted files right away or they need time-consuming system checks through which the server isn't operational.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Shared Web Hosting

The integrity of the data that you upload to your new shared web hosting account will be ensured by the ZFS file system that we employ on our cloud platform. Most hosting service providers, including our firm, use multiple HDDs to keep content and considering that the drives work in a RAID, identical information is synchronized between the drives at all times. If a file on a drive becomes corrupted for whatever reason, yet, it is likely that it will be duplicated on the other drives because alternative file systems don't include special checks for this. Unlike them, ZFS applies a digital fingerprint, or a checksum, for each and every file. If a file gets corrupted, its checksum will not match what ZFS has as a record for it, therefore the damaged copy shall be swapped with a good one from another hard drive. As this happens instantly, there's no possibility for any of your files to ever get damaged.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you go for one of our semi-dedicated hosting packages, you will not have to worry about silent file corruption because we use ZFS - an advanced file system which monitors all the files in real time. Every time you upload a file to your hosting account, ZFS will assign a unique digital fingerprint to it - the so-called checksum. This file will be synced between a number of NVMe drives for redundancy, so if a drive fails, the other ones will take over. ZFS compares the checksum of all the copies on the different drives and if it detects a damaged copy, it replaces it with a healthy one from a different drive. This happens instantly, so there will be no threat for any part of your content at any time. In contrast, all the other file systems carry out checks only after a system malfunction, but since they do not use anything similar to the checksums which ZFS uses, they will not detect silently corrupted files, so a bad copy may be replicated on the rest of the disks as well and you could lose crucial data. Because this is not the case with ZFS, we can warrant the integrity of each and every file you upload no matter what.