Data corruption is the accidental modification of a file or the losing of information that often occurs during reading or writing. The reason can be hardware or software fail, and for that reason, a file could become partially or fully corrupted, so it will no longer function as it should as its bits will be scrambled or missing. An image file, for example, will no longer show an actual image, but a random mix of colors, an archive will be impossible to unpack as its content will be unreadable, and so on. If this kind of a problem occurs and it is not recognized by the system or by an administrator, the data will be corrupted silently and in case this happens on a drive that is a part of a RAID array where the information is synced between different drives, the corrupted file shall be replicated on all other drives and the damage will become permanent. Many popular file systems either don't feature real-time checks or don't have high quality ones which can detect an issue before the damage is done, so silent data corruption is a very common problem on web hosting servers where huge amounts of info are stored.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Website Hosting

The integrity of the data that you upload to your new website hosting account shall be ensured by the ZFS file system which we make use of on our cloud platform. The vast majority of internet hosting service providers, like our company, use multiple hard disks to store content and since the drives work in a RAID, the exact same information is synchronized between the drives at all times. When a file on a drive gets corrupted for some reason, however, it's likely that it will be duplicated on the other drives because alternative file systems don't have special checks for this. In contrast to them, ZFS applies a digital fingerprint, or a checksum, for every single file. In the event that a file gets corrupted, its checksum won't match what ZFS has as a record for it, so the bad copy will be substituted with a good one from another drive. Since this happens instantly, there's no possibility for any of your files to ever get damaged.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Your semi-dedicated hosting account will be protected against silent data corruption since all our storage servers use the advanced ZFS file system. What makes the aforementioned unique is that it uses checksums, or digital identifiers, in order to ensure the integrity of every single file. When you upload content to your account, it will be kept on several redundant drives working in a RAID i.e. the files shall be the same across all drives. All of the copies of a given file will feature the same checksum on all hard disks and ZFS will compare the checksums of the copies right away, and if it identifies a mismatch, that would indicate that one of the copies is corrupted, it'll replace that file with a good copy from one of the other drives. Even if there is an unexpected power loss, the data on the servers won't become corrupted and there won't be any need for a time-consuming system check which other file systems perform after some malfunction, lengthening the time needed for the server to go back online. ZFS is the file system that can truly protect your content from silent data corruption.