Data corruption is the damage of information due to various software or hardware failures. The moment a file is damaged, it will no longer work properly, so an app will not start or will give errors, a text file could be partially or completely unreadable, an archive file will be impossible to open then unpack, etc. Silent data corruption is the process of info getting damaged without any identification by the system or an admin, that makes it a significant problem for web hosting servers as problems are very likely to occur on bigger hard disk drives where considerable volumes of info are stored. If a drive is a part of a RAID and the information on it is duplicated on other drives for redundancy, it is more than likely that the damaged file will be treated as a regular one and will be duplicated on all of the drives, making the harm permanent. A lot of the file systems that operate on web servers nowadays often cannot discover corrupted files right away or they need time-consuming system checks during which the server isn't working.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Shared Website Hosting

The integrity of the data that you upload to your new shared website hosting account shall be ensured by the ZFS file system which we use on our cloud platform. Most internet hosting suppliers, including our company, use multiple hard disks to keep content and considering that the drives work in a RAID, the exact same data is synchronized between the drives all the time. When a file on a drive is corrupted for whatever reason, however, it's more than likely that it will be copied on the other drives because other file systems do not have special checks for this. Unlike them, ZFS works with a digital fingerprint, or a checksum, for each file. In the event that a file gets corrupted, its checksum won't match what ZFS has as a record for it, and the damaged copy shall be swapped with a good one from a different disk drive. Because this happens in real time, there is no risk for any of your files to ever get corrupted.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Semi-dedicated Servers

Your semi-dedicated server account will be resistant to silent data corruption since all of our storage servers work with the advanced ZFS file system. What makes the latter unique is that it uses checksums, or digital identifiers, to guarantee the integrity of every single file. When you upload content to your account, it'll be saved on several redundant drives employed in a RAID i.e. the files shall be the same on all disk drives. All of the copies of a particular file will feature the same checksum on all hard disks and ZFS will compare the checksums of the duplicates quickly, so if it finds a mismatch, which will indicate that one of the copies is corrupted, it will swap that file with a good copy from one of the other disks. Even if there is an unexpected blackout, the data on the servers will not get corrupted and there will not be any need for a time-consuming system check which other file systems perform after some failure, lengthening the time needed for the server to get back online. ZFS is the only file system which can truly protect your content from silent data corruption.