Data corruption is the damage of info caused by various hardware or software problems. When a file is corrupted, it will no longer work as it should, so an app will not start or will give errors, a text file can be partially or entirely unreadable, an archive file will be impossible to open 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 serious problem for hosting servers as fails are very likely to happen on larger in size hard disks where vast volumes of info are stored. In case a drive is a part of a RAID and the data on it is duplicated on other drives for redundancy, it is very likely that the damaged file will be treated as a standard one and it'll be copied on all of the drives, making the damage permanent. A lot of the file systems which run on web servers these days often are unable to detect corrupted files instantly or they need time-consuming system checks during which the server is not working.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Cloud Website Hosting

The integrity of the data which you upload to your new cloud website hosting account shall be guaranteed by the ZFS file system that we work with on our cloud platform. The majority of hosting service providers, like our company, use multiple hard disk drives to store content and considering that the drives work in a RAID, the exact same data is synchronized between the drives all of the time. If a file on a drive is corrupted for whatever reason, however, it is more than likely that it will be reproduced on the other drives because other file systems don't include special checks for this. In contrast to them, ZFS employs a digital fingerprint, or a checksum, for every file. If a file gets corrupted, its checksum won't match what ZFS has as a record for it, therefore the bad copy shall be substituted with a good one from another hard disk drive. Since this happens immediately, there is no possibility for any of your files to ever get damaged.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Semi-dedicated Servers

You will not need to deal with any silent data corruption issues whatsoever if you acquire one of our semi-dedicated server packages because the ZFS file system that we employ on our cloud hosting platform uses checksums in order to make sure that all files are intact at all times. A checksum is a unique digital fingerprint that is given to each and every file saved on a server. Because we store all content on multiple drives at the same time, the same file uses the same checksum on all drives and what ZFS does is that it compares the checksums between the different drives right away. In the event that it detects that a file is corrupted and its checksum is different from what it has to be, it replaces that file with a healthy copy without delay, avoiding any probability of the bad copy to be synchronized on the other hard disks. ZFS is the only file system out there which uses checksums, which makes it far superior to other file systems that are not able to identify silent data corruption and copy bad files across drives.