Data corruption is the damage of information caused by various software or hardware problems. The moment a file gets damaged, it will no longer function properly, so an application will not start or will give errors, a text file could be partially or entirely unreadable, an archive file will be impossible to open and then unpack, etc. Silent data corruption is the process of info getting damaged without any acknowledgement by the system or an administrator, that makes it a significant problem for hosting servers as failures are very likely to occur on larger hard drives where large volumes of info are placed. If a drive is a part of a RAID and the information on it is replicated on other drives for redundancy, it is likely that the bad file will be treated as a good one and will be duplicated on all the drives, making the damage permanent. A huge number of the file systems which run on web servers nowadays often cannot recognize corrupted files right away or they need time-consuming system checks through which the server is not working.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Website Hosting

We warrant the integrity of the information uploaded in every single website hosting account which is generated on our cloud platform due to the fact that we employ the advanced ZFS file system. The latter is the only one which was designed to avert silent data corruption via a unique checksum for every single file. We'll store your info on multiple SSD drives which work in a RAID, so the same files will be present on several places at once. ZFS checks the digital fingerprint of all the files on all the drives in real time and in case the checksum of any file differs from what it has to be, the file system swaps that file with an undamaged copy from a different drive in the RAID. There's no other file system that uses checksums, so it is possible for data to get silently corrupted and the bad file to be duplicated on all drives with time, but since this can never happen on a server running ZFS, you do not have to concern yourself with the integrity of your information.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Semi-dedicated Hosting

In case you obtain one of our semi-dedicated hosting packages, you won't have to be concerned about silent file corruption because we use ZFS - a high level file system which keeps track of all files in real time. Whenever you upload a file to your account, ZFS will assign a unique digital fingerprint to it - the so-called checksum. That file will be synced between several SSD drives for redundancy, so if a drive fails, the other ones will take over. ZFS compares the checksum of all of the copies on the different drives and if it detects a damaged copy, it replaces it with a healthy one from another drive. This is done instantly, so there will be no risk for any part of your content at any time. In comparison, all of the other file systems carry out checks only after a system malfunction, but since they do not use anything similar to the checksums that ZFS uses, they are unable to detect silently corrupted files, so a bad copy can be replicated on the rest of the drives as well and you may lose critical info. As this is not the case with ZFS, we are able to guarantee the integrity of every single file you upload no matter what.