Data corruption is the damage of information because of various software or hardware failures. When a file gets corrupted, it will no longer work accurately, so an application will not start or will give errors, a text file could be partially or fully unreadable, an archive file will be impossible to open and then unpack, etc. Silent data corruption is the process of information getting damaged without any acknowledgement by the system or an administrator, that makes it a significant problem for website hosting servers as fails are much more likely to happen on larger in size hard drives where significant volumes of info are stored. If a drive is part of a RAID and the info on it is replicated on other drives for redundancy, it's very likely that the damaged file will be treated as an undamaged one and it'll be duplicated on all of the drives, making the harm permanent. A huge number of the file systems that run on web servers today often are unable to find corrupted files instantly or they need time-consuming system checks through which the server is not functioning.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Shared Hosting

We guarantee the integrity of the info uploaded in any shared hosting account that is generated on our cloud platform since we employ the advanced ZFS file system. The aforementioned is the only one which was designed to avoid silent data corruption via a unique checksum for each and every file. We'll store your information on a large number of NVMe drives that operate in a RAID, so the very same files will be available on several places simultaneously. ZFS checks the digital fingerprint of all of the files on all of the drives in real time and if the checksum of any file differs from what it needs to be, the file system replaces that file with a healthy copy from a different drive in the RAID. There's no other file system that uses checksums, so it's possible for data to become silently corrupted and the bad file to be duplicated on all drives with time, but since that can never happen on a server using ZFS, you will not have to concern yourself with the integrity of your info.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you obtain one of our semi-dedicated hosting plans, you won't have to be concerned about silent file corruption because we use ZFS - an advanced file system which keeps track of all the files in real time. Whenever you upload a file to your hosting account, ZFS will assign a unique digital fingerprint to it - the so-called checksum. The file will be synchronized between multiple NVMe drives for redundancy, so if a drive fails, the other ones will take over. ZFS compares the checksum of all copies on the different drives and if it detects a corrupted copy, it replaces it with a healthy one from a different drive. This is done instantly, so there will be no risk for any part of your content at any time. By comparison, other file systems perform checks only after a system breakdown, but since they do not use anything similar to the checksums which ZFS uses, they will not detect silently corrupted files, so a corrupted copy can be replicated on the other disks as well and you may lose critical data. Since this isn't the case with ZFS, we're able to warrant the integrity of every single file you upload no matter what.