Data corruption is the accidental modification of a file or the loss of info which usually occurs during reading or writing. The reason can be hardware or software fail, and as a result, a file could become partially or completely corrupted, so it'll no longer function as it should since its bits shall be scrambled or missing. An image file, for example, will no longer present a true image, but a random mix of colors, an archive will be impossible to unpack since its content will be unreadable, etcetera. When such an issue occurs and it's not recognized by the system or by an administrator, the data will become corrupted silently and when this happens on a disk drive that is part of a RAID array where the information is synchronized between various drives, the corrupted file will be replicated on all the other drives and the harm will be long term. A number of widespread file systems either don't feature real-time checks or don't have good ones that can detect an issue before the damage is done, so silent data corruption is a common problem on web hosting servers where large volumes of information are kept.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Shared Hosting

We guarantee the integrity of the information uploaded in each shared hosting account which is made on our cloud platform as we use the advanced ZFS file system. The aforementioned is the only one which was designed to avert silent data corruption via a unique checksum for each file. We will store your info on a large number of NVMe drives that function in a RAID, so the very same files will be accessible on several places simultaneously. 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 differs from what it has to be, the file system replaces that file with an undamaged version from some other drive within the RAID. There's no other file system which uses checksums, so it's easy for data to become silently corrupted and the bad file to be reproduced on all drives with time, but since that can never happen on a server using ZFS, you don't have to worry about the integrity of your information.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Semi-dedicated Servers

We have avoided any possibility of files getting corrupted silently since the servers where your semi-dedicated server account will be created employ a powerful file system known as ZFS. Its main advantage over various other file systems is that it uses a unique checksum for each file - a digital fingerprint that's checked in real time. Since we store all content on numerous NVMe drives, ZFS checks if the fingerprint of a file on one drive matches the one on the remaining drives and the one it has stored. If there is a mismatch, the corrupted copy is replaced with a healthy one from one of the other drives and since it happens in real time, there's no chance that a damaged copy could remain on our hosting servers or that it could be copied to the other hard disks in the RAID. None of the other file systems employ this kind of checks and what's more, even during a file system check after a sudden electrical power failure, none of them will identify silently corrupted files. In comparison, ZFS won't crash after a blackout and the constant checksum monitoring makes a time-consuming file system check unneeded.