Data corruption is the damage of data due to various software or hardware fails. When a file is corrupted, it will no longer function correctly, so an app will not start or will give errors, a text file could be partially or fully unreadable, an archive will be impossible to open then unpack, etc. Silent data corruption is the process of data getting harmed without any acknowledgement by the system or an admin, which makes it a serious problem for website hosting servers as failures are much more likely to happen on larger hard disk drives where substantial volumes of info are located. If a drive is part of a RAID and the info on it is replicated on other drives for redundancy, it's likely that the damaged file will be treated as a good one and it'll be duplicated on all the drives, making the harm permanent. Lots of the file systems that run on web servers these days often are not able to locate corrupted files instantly or they need time-consuming system checks during which the server is not functioning.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Cloud Website Hosting

The integrity of the data which you upload to your new cloud website hosting account shall be ensured by the ZFS file system that we work with on our cloud platform. Most of the web hosting providers, including our company, use multiple hard disks to keep content and because the drives work in a RAID, the exact same information is synchronized between the drives all of the time. In case a file on a drive is damaged for reasons unknown, yet, it is very likely that it will be duplicated on the other drives as other file systems don't include special checks for this. Unlike them, ZFS works with a digital fingerprint, or a checksum, for each file. In case a file gets corrupted, its checksum won't match what ZFS has as a record for it, and the bad copy shall be substituted with a good one from a different hard disk drive. As this happens in real time, there's no risk for any of your files to ever be damaged.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Your semi-dedicated hosting account will be shielded from silent data corruption since all our storage servers work with the effective ZFS file system. What makes the latter unique is that it uses checksums, or digital identifiers, so as to verify the integrity of each file. When you upload content to your account, it'll be kept on several redundant drives being employed in a RAID i.e. the files will be the same across all drives. All of the copies of a particular file will have the same checksum on all drives and ZFS will compare the checksums of the copies right away, so if it discovers a mismatch, which will indicate that one of the copies is damaged, it will substitute that file with a good copy from one of the other disks. Even if there's an unforeseen power loss, the data on the servers won't get corrupted and there won't be any need for a time-consuming system check which other file systems perform following some breakdown, prolonging the time needed for the server to return online. ZFS is the sole file system that can really protect your content from silent data corruption.