Data corruption is the damage of data due to various hardware or software problems. Once a file gets damaged, it will no longer work properly, so an app will not start or shall 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 data getting harmed without any acknowledgement by the system or an administrator, which makes it a significant problem for web hosting servers as problems are very likely to happen on bigger hard disk drives where considerable volumes of info are placed. If a drive is a part of a RAID and the data on it is duplicated on other drives for redundancy, it is likely that the bad file will be treated as a healthy one and it'll be copied on all of the drives, making the harm permanent. Lots of the file systems which run on web servers today often cannot detect corrupted files in real time or they need time-consuming system checks during which the server isn't working.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Website Hosting

The integrity of the data which you upload to your new website hosting account will be guaranteed by the ZFS file system which we work with on our cloud platform. Most of the hosting suppliers, like our firm, use multiple HDDs to keep content and since the drives work in a RAID, identical information is synchronized between the drives at all times. When a file on a drive becomes corrupted for whatever reason, however, it's more than likely that it will be reproduced on the other drives because other file systems don't feature special checks for that. In contrast to them, ZFS applies a digital fingerprint, or a checksum, for every single file. In case a file gets damaged, its checksum will not match what ZFS has as a record for it, and the bad copy shall be swapped with a good one from another drive. As this happens right away, there is no risk 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 because all of our storage servers employ the innovative ZFS file system. What makes the latter unique is that it employs checksums, or digital identifiers, so as to verify the integrity of each and every file. When you upload content to your account, it'll be stored on several redundant drives operating in a RAID i.e. the files will be the same on all drives. All of the copies of a given file will feature the same checksum on all hard disks and ZFS will compare the checksums of the copies in real time, so if it discovers a mismatch, that will indicate that one of the copies is corrupted, it'll replace that file with a healthy copy from one of the other disks. Even if there's an unexpected power loss, the data on the servers will not be corrupted and there won't be any need for a time-consuming system check that other file systems perform following some failure, lengthening the time needed for the server to go back online. ZFS is the file system that can truly protect your content from silent data corruption.