Data corruption is the accidental modification of a file or the losing of information that often occurs during reading or writing. The reason could be hardware or software failure, and due to this fact, a file could become partially or fully corrupted, so it will no longer work correctly because its bits shall be scrambled or missing. An image file, for example, will no longer display a true image, but a random combination of colors, an archive will be impossible to unpack as its content will be unreadable, etcetera. If such an issue occurs and it is not identified by the system or by an administrator, the data will become corrupted silently and in case this happens on a drive that is a part of a RAID array where the information is synchronized between various different drives, the corrupted file shall be reproduced on all of the other drives and the damage will become long term. Many frequently used file systems either do not feature real-time checks or do not have good ones that will detect an issue before the damage is done, so silent data corruption is a very common matter on internet hosting servers where large amounts of data are stored.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Shared Website Hosting

We warrant the integrity of the data uploaded in each shared website hosting account that is created on our cloud platform as we work with the advanced ZFS file system. The latter is the only one that was designed to avert silent data corruption using a unique checksum for each file. We'll store your info on a large number of NVMe drives which operate in a RAID, so the very same files will be present on several places at once. ZFS checks the digital fingerprint of all the files on all of the drives in real time and in the event that the checksum of any file is different from what it has to be, the file system swaps that file with an undamaged version from a different drive in the RAID. No other file system uses checksums, so it's possible for data to get silently damaged and the bad file to be replicated on all drives with time, but since that can never happen on a server running ZFS, you do not have to concern yourself with the integrity of your info.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Semi-dedicated Servers

You will not encounter any silent data corruption issues in case you acquire one of our semi-dedicated server solutions since the ZFS file system that we take advantage of on our cloud hosting platform uses checksums to make sure that all of the files are intact all the time. A checksum is a unique digital fingerprint which is assigned to each and every file saved on a server. Since we store all content on multiple drives at the same time, the same file uses the same checksum on all the drives and what ZFS does is that it compares the checksums between the different drives in real time. In case it detects that a file is corrupted and its checksum is different from what it should be, it replaces that file with a healthy copy without delay, avoiding any chance of the corrupted copy to be synchronized on the other hard drives. ZFS is the only file system out there that uses checksums, which makes it far superior to other file systems which cannot identify silent data corruption and copy bad files across hard drives.