Data corruption is the damage of info due to various hardware or software fails. After a file is damaged, it will no longer function accurately, so an app will not start or shall give errors, a text file will be partially or completely unreadable, an archive file will be impossible to open then unpack, etc. Silent data corruption is the process of info getting damaged without any identification by the system or an admin, that makes it a serious problem for website hosting servers as failures are more likely to occur on bigger hard disks where considerable volumes of information are stored. When a drive is a part of a RAID and the data on it is copied on other drives for redundancy, it is very likely that the damaged file will be treated as an undamaged one and will be copied on all of the drives, making the harm permanent. A huge number of the file systems which run on web servers these days often cannot discover corrupted files right away or they need time-consuming system checks through which the server isn't functioning.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Website Hosting

The integrity of the data which you upload to your new website hosting account shall be guaranteed by the ZFS file system that we use on our cloud platform. The vast majority of internet hosting service providers, including our firm, use multiple hard drives to store content and because the drives work in a RAID, identical info is synchronized between the drives all of the time. When a file on a drive is corrupted for reasons unknown, however, it's very likely that it will be reproduced on the other drives since alternative file systems don't feature special checks for that. In contrast to them, ZFS works with a digital fingerprint, or a checksum, for every single file. If a file gets corrupted, its checksum won't match what ZFS has as a record for it, therefore the bad copy will be replaced with a good one from a different hard disk. Because this happens in real time, there is no risk for any of your files to ever be corrupted.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you buy one of our semi-dedicated hosting plans, you will not have to worry about silent file corruption as we use ZFS - an advanced file system that keeps track of all the files in real time. Every time you upload a file to your website hosting account, ZFS will assign a unique digital fingerprint to it - the so-called checksum. That file will be synchronized between several NVMe drives for redundancy, so if one drive fails, the other ones will take control. ZFS compares the checksum of all of the copies on the different drives and when it detects a corrupted copy, it replaces it with a healthy one from another drive. This happens in real time, so there will be no risk for any part of your content at any moment. By comparison, other file systems perform checks only after a system breakdown, but since they don't use anything similar to the checksums which ZFS uses, they cannot detect silently corrupted files, so a bad copy may be replicated on the rest of the drives as well and you could lose crucial info. Since this is not the case with ZFS, we can warrant the integrity of every single file you upload no matter what.