Data corruption is the damage of data because of various hardware or software failures. The moment a file is damaged, it will no longer function accurately, so an app will not start or will give errors, a text file will be partially or completely unreadable, an archive file will be impossible to open and then unpack, etc. Silent data corruption is the process of data getting harmed without any identification by the system or an admin, which makes it a significant problem for website hosting servers as failures are very likely to occur on larger in size hard disk drives where large volumes of info are located. In case a drive is part of a RAID and the info on it is duplicated on other drives for redundancy, it is 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 lot of the file systems that operate on web servers today often are not able to recognize corrupted files immediately or they need time-consuming system checks during which the server isn't working.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Cloud Web Hosting

The integrity of the data which you upload to your new cloud web hosting account will be guaranteed by the ZFS file system which we employ on our cloud platform. The majority of web hosting providers, like our company, use multiple HDDs to keep content and considering that the drives work in a RAID, exactly the same data is synchronized between the drives at all times. If a file on a drive gets corrupted for some reason, however, it's very likely that it will be reproduced on the other drives as other file systems do not offer special checks for that. In contrast to them, ZFS works with a digital fingerprint, or a checksum, for every file. In the event that a file gets damaged, its checksum won't match what ZFS has as a record for it, which means that the damaged copy shall be swapped with a good one from another hard disk drive. Since this happens immediately, there is no risk for any of your files to ever be damaged.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Semi-dedicated Servers

You won't have to deal with any kind of silent data corruption issues should you purchase one of our semi-dedicated server plans as the ZFS file system that we work with on our cloud hosting platform uses checksums in order to make sure that all of your files are undamaged all the time. A checksum is a unique digital fingerprint which is given to each and every file stored on a server. Since we store all content on multiple drives simultaneously, the same file uses the same checksum on all of the 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 right away, avoiding any probability of the damaged copy to be synchronized on the rest of the hard drives. ZFS is the sole file system available on the market that uses checksums, which makes it much more reliable than other file systems which are not able to detect silent data corruption and copy bad files across drives.