Data corruption is the damage of info caused by various software or hardware problems. The moment a file gets corrupted, it will no longer function as it should, so an application will not start or shall give errors, a text file can be partially or fully unreadable, an archive will be impossible to open then unpack, etc. Silent data corruption is the process of info getting harmed without any acknowledgement by the system or an administrator, that makes it a significant problem for hosting servers as failures are much more likely to happen on larger hard drives where large volumes of information are stored. If a drive is part of a RAID and the info on it is copied on other drives for redundancy, it is more than likely that the damaged file will be treated as a regular one and it will be duplicated on all the drives, making the harm permanent. A huge number of the file systems which operate on web servers nowadays often are unable to detect corrupted files in real time or they need time-consuming system checks through which the server isn't functioning.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Hosting

The integrity of the data which you upload to your new hosting account will be guaranteed by the ZFS file system that we use on our cloud platform. The majority of hosting suppliers, including our firm, use multiple hard disk drives to keep content and considering that the drives work in a RAID, the exact same information is synchronized between the drives all the time. When a file on a drive becomes corrupted for reasons unknown, however, it is more than likely that it will be reproduced on the other drives as other file systems don't have special checks for this. In contrast to them, ZFS works with a digital fingerprint, or a checksum, for every single file. In the event that a file gets damaged, its checksum won't match what ZFS has as a record for it, therefore the damaged copy will be swapped with a good one from a different hard disk drive. Because this happens right away, there's no possibility for any of your files to ever be damaged.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Semi-dedicated Servers

Your semi-dedicated server account will be shielded from silent data corruption as all our storage servers use the innovative ZFS file system. What makes the aforementioned unique is that it employs checksums, or digital identifiers, in order to verify the integrity of each file. When you upload content to your account, it will be kept on several redundant drives working in a RAID i.e. the files shall be the same on all drives. All the copies of a particular file will have the same checksum on all hard drives and ZFS will compare the checksums of the copies right away, so if it discovers a mismatch, which would indicate that one of the copies is corrupted, it will replace that file with a healthy copy from one of the other disks. Even if there's an unforeseen blackout, the data on the servers will not get corrupted and there will not be any need for a time-consuming system check that other file systems perform after some breakdown, lengthening the time needed for the server to get back online. ZFS is the sole file system which can truly protect your content from silent data corruption.