Data corruption is the accidental transformation of a file or the losing of information that usually occurs during reading or writing. The reason may be hardware or software fail, and because of this, a file can become partially or completely corrupted, so it'll no longer work correctly because its bits will be scrambled or lacking. An image file, for example, will no longer present an actual image, but a random mix of colors, an archive will be impossible to unpack as its content will be unreadable, etc. If this kind of a problem appears and it is not found by the system or by an admin, the data will be corrupted silently and when this happens on a drive that's a part of a RAID array where the info is synced between different drives, the corrupted file shall be copied on all the other drives and the harm will be permanent. Many commonly used file systems either don't have real-time checks or don't have good ones that can detect a problem before the damage is done, so silent data corruption is a very common problem on internet hosting servers where substantial volumes of data are kept.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Shared Web Hosting

We warrant the integrity of the information uploaded in any shared web hosting account which is made on our cloud platform since we employ the advanced ZFS file system. The latter is the only one that was designed to prevent silent data corruption through a unique checksum for every single file. We'll store your data on a number of NVMe drives that work in a RAID, so the very same files will exist on several places concurrently. 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 differs from what it has to be, the file system replaces that file with a healthy copy from another drive inside the RAID. No other file system uses checksums, so it's easy for data to be silently corrupted and the bad file to be reproduced on all drives over time, but since that can never happen on a server running ZFS, you will not have to worry about the integrity of your information.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Your semi-dedicated hosting account will be shielded from silent data corruption since all of our storage servers work with the efficient ZFS file system. What makes the latter unique is that it employs checksums, or digital identifiers, in order to verify the integrity of each and every file. When you upload content to your account, it'll be stored on several redundant drives in a RAID i.e. the files will be the same across all disks. All of the copies of a given file will have the same checksum on all drives and ZFS will compare the checksums of the duplicates right away, so if it finds a mismatch, that would indicate that one of the copies is damaged, it will replace that file with a healthy copy from one of the other drives. Even if there is an unforeseen power failure, the data on the servers won't become corrupted and there won't be any need for a time-consuming system check that other file systems perform after some breakdown, prolonging the time needed for the server to get back online. ZFS is the only file system that can truly protect your content from silent data corruption.