Data corruption is the damage of information because of various hardware or software problems. When a file is corrupted, it will no longer function as it should, so an application will not start or will give errors, a text file shall be partially or completely unreadable, an archive will be impossible to open then unpack, etc. Silent data corruption is the process of info getting damaged without any acknowledgement by the system or an admin, that makes it a significant problem for website hosting servers as problems are more likely to occur on larger in size hard disks where vast volumes of info are placed. When a drive is a part of a RAID and the info on it is copied on other drives for redundancy, it's likely that the bad file will be treated as a standard one and it will be copied on all drives, making the damage permanent. A lot of the file systems which operate on web servers today often cannot find corrupted files in real time or they need time-consuming system checks during which the server isn't operational.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Website Hosting

In case you host your sites in a website hosting account with our firm, you will not need to worry about your data ever getting corrupted. We can ensure that as our cloud hosting platform employs the state-of-the-art ZFS file system. The aforementioned is the only file system that uses checksums, or unique digital fingerprints, for each and every file. All of the info that you upload will be kept in a RAID i.e. simultaneously on many SSDs. Many file systems synchronize the files between the separate drives using such a setup, but there is no real warranty that a file won't be corrupted. This can happen at the time of the writing process on any drive and after that a damaged copy can be copied on the rest of the drives. What is different on our platform is the fact that ZFS analyzes the checksums of all files on all drives right away and if a corrupted file is identified, it's replaced with a good copy with the correct checksum from some other drive. By doing this, your information will remain unharmed no matter what, even if a whole drive fails.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Semi-dedicated Servers

You won't have to deal with any kind of silent data corruption issues whatsoever should you obtain one of our semi-dedicated server plans because the ZFS file system that we use on our cloud hosting platform uses checksums in order to guarantee that all of your files are undamaged all of the time. A checksum is a unique digital fingerprint that is allotted to each and every file kept on a server. Since we store all content on a number of drives at the same time, the same file uses the same checksum on all 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 right away, avoiding any probability of the corrupted copy to be synchronized on the remaining drives. ZFS is the only file system you can get which uses checksums, which makes it much more dependable than other file systems which are unable to identify silent data corruption and duplicate bad files across hard drives.