Data corruption is the unintentional transformation of a file or the losing of information which often occurs during reading or writing. The reason can be hardware or software fail, and consequently, a file can become partially or completely corrupted, so it'll no longer function as it should since its bits shall be scrambled or lost. An image file, for instance, will no longer display a true image, but a random combination of colors, an archive will be impossible to unpack because its content will be unreadable, etcetera. When this kind of a problem occurs and it isn't recognized by the system or by an admin, the data will be corrupted silently and in case this happens on a disk drive that's part of a RAID array where the data is synchronized between different drives, the corrupted file will be copied on all other drives and the damage will become long term. A large number of popular file systems either do not have real-time checks or do not have high quality ones which will detect a problem before the damage is done, so silent data corruption is a very common issue on internet hosting servers where large amounts of info are stored.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Shared Hosting

We warrant the integrity of the information uploaded in any shared hosting account that is made on our cloud platform due to the fact that 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 each file. We'll store your data on a large number of NVMe drives which work in a RAID, so the very same files will be present on several places at the same time. ZFS checks the digital fingerprint of all the files on all the drives in real time and in case the checksum of any file is different from what it has to be, the file system swaps that file with an undamaged version from some other drive in the RAID. There's no other file system that uses checksums, so it's easy for data to be silently damaged and the bad file to be duplicated on all drives over time, but since that can never happen on a server using ZFS, you do not have to concern yourself with the integrity of your information.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Your semi-dedicated hosting account will be resistant to silent data corruption as all our storage servers use the advanced ZFS file system. What makes the aforementioned unique is that it uses checksums, or digital identifiers, so as to ensure the integrity of every single file. When you upload content to your account, it'll be placed on several redundant drives working in a RAID i.e. the files shall be the same on all drives. All of the copies of a specific file will have the same checksum on all drives and ZFS will compare the checksums of the duplicates in real time, so if it finds a mismatch, which will indicate that one of the copies is corrupted, it will replace that file with a healthy copy from one of the other disks. Even if there is a sudden power loss, the data on the servers won't be corrupted and there will not be any need for a time-consuming system check that other file systems perform following some failure, lengthening the time needed for the server to return online. ZFS is the file system which can really protect your content from silent data corruption.