Data corruption is the damage of info because of various hardware or software failures. The moment a file is damaged, it will no longer function as it should, so an application will not start or will give errors, a text file can be partially or fully unreadable, an archive will be impossible to open and unpack, etc. Silent data corruption is the process of information getting damaged without any acknowledgement by the system or an administrator, which makes it a serious problem for website hosting servers as failures are more likely to happen on larger in size hard drives where substantial volumes of information are kept. In case a drive is a part of a RAID and the data on it is duplicated on other drives for redundancy, it's likely that the damaged file will be treated as an ordinary one and it will be copied on all drives, making the harm permanent. A huge number of the file systems that run on web servers today often cannot discover corrupted files in real time or they need time-consuming system checks during which the server is not operational.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Cloud Website Hosting

The integrity of the data that you upload to your new cloud website hosting account shall be guaranteed by the ZFS file system which we make use of on our cloud platform. The vast majority of hosting suppliers, including our firm, use multiple HDDs to store content and because the drives work in a RAID, the exact same information is synchronized between the drives all of the time. When a file on a drive gets damaged for some reason, yet, it is very likely that it will be reproduced on the other drives because alternative file systems do not have special checks for this. In contrast to them, ZFS works with a digital fingerprint, or a checksum, for each and every file. If a file gets corrupted, its checksum will not match what ZFS has as a record for it, therefore the damaged copy will be replaced with a good one from another hard disk drive. Because this happens immediately, there is no risk for any of your files to ever get corrupted.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Your semi-dedicated hosting account will be protected against silent data corruption since all of our storage servers use the advanced ZFS file system. What makes the aforementioned unique is that it uses checksums, or digital identifiers, in order to guarantee the integrity of every single file. When you upload content to your account, it'll be stored on a couple of redundant drives employed in a RAID i.e. the files will be the same across all disk drives. All of the copies of a specific file will have the same checksum on all hard disks and ZFS will compare the checksums of the copies quickly, so if it detects a mismatch, that would indicate that one of the copies is damaged, it will swap that file with a healthy copy from one of the other disks. Even if there's an unexpected power failure, the data on the servers will not be corrupted and there won't be any need for a time-consuming system check which other file systems perform following some breakdown, extending the time needed for the server to get back online. ZFS is the file system that can truly protect your content from silent data corruption.