Data corruption is the damage of info caused by various hardware or software failures. The moment a file gets corrupted, it will no longer function accurately, so an app will not start or shall give errors, a text file could be partially or entirely unreadable, an archive will be impossible to open then unpack, etc. Silent data corruption is the process of information getting harmed without any acknowledgement by the system or an administrator, that makes it a serious problem for website hosting servers as fails are very likely to happen on larger in size hard disks where substantial volumes of information are located. In case a drive is part of a RAID and the info on it is replicated on other drives for redundancy, it's very likely that the damaged file will be treated as a regular one and it'll be duplicated on all drives, making the harm permanent. Lots of the file systems which run on web servers nowadays often cannot identify corrupted files in real time or they need time-consuming system checks during which the server is not working.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Website Hosting

We guarantee the integrity of the information uploaded in each and every website hosting account which is created on our cloud platform as we use the advanced ZFS file system. The latter is the only one that was designed to prevent silent data corruption thanks to a unique checksum for each file. We shall store your information on a number of NVMe drives which operate in a RAID, so the very same files will be available on several places at the same time. ZFS checks the digital fingerprint of all files on all the drives in real time and in the event that the checksum of any file is different from what it should be, the file system replaces that file with an undamaged copy from some other drive in the RAID. No other file system uses checksums, so it's possible for data to become silently corrupted and the bad file to be replicated on all drives with time, but since this can never happen on a server using ZFS, you will not have to worry about the integrity of your information.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Semi-dedicated Servers

In case you purchase one of our semi-dedicated server packages, you won't have to be concerned about silent file corruption as we use ZFS - a high level file system that monitors all the files in real time. Every time you upload a file to your web hosting account, ZFS will assign a unique digital fingerprint to it - the so-called checksum. This file will be synced between several NVMe drives for redundancy, so if a drive fails, the other ones will take over. ZFS compares the checksum of all copies on the different drives and when it detects a damaged copy, it replaces it with a healthy one from a different drive. This happens instantly, so there will be no danger for any part of your content at any time. In comparison, other file systems perform checks after a system malfunction, but since they don't use anything similar to the checksums that ZFS uses, they will not detect silently corrupted files, so a corrupted copy could be replicated on the rest of the drives as well and you may lose crucial information. Since this isn't the case with ZFS, we warrant the integrity of each and every file you upload no matter what.