Data corruption is the damage of info due to various software or hardware problems. The moment a file is damaged, it will no longer function properly, so an application will not start or shall give errors, a text file shall be partially or entirely unreadable, an archive file will be impossible to open and unpack, etc. Silent data corruption is the process of info getting harmed without any identification by the system or an administrator, that makes it a significant problem for website hosting servers as problems are very likely to occur on bigger hard drives where large volumes of information are kept. In case a drive is a part of a RAID and the data on it is duplicated on other drives for redundancy, it's more than likely that the bad file will be treated as a regular one and it'll be copied on all of the drives, making the damage permanent. Lots of the file systems which run on web servers today often are not able to detect corrupted files immediately or they need time-consuming system checks during which the server isn't working.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Shared Website Hosting

In case you host your Internet sites in a shared website hosting account with our firm, you don't need to worry about any of your data ever getting damaged. We can ensure that due to the fact that our cloud hosting platform works with the outstanding ZFS file system. The aforementioned is the only file system that uses checksums, or unique digital fingerprints, for each file. Any kind of info that you upload will be saved in a RAID i.e. simultaneously on multiple NVMe drives. All file systems synchronize the files between the separate drives using such a setup, but there's no real warranty that a file will not be corrupted. This could occur during the writing process on any drive and then a bad copy may be copied on all other drives. What makes the difference on our platform is the fact that ZFS analyzes the checksums of all files on all the drives live and in case a corrupted file is identified, it is swapped with a good copy with the correct checksum from some other drive. In this way, your information will stay unharmed no matter what, even if a whole drive fails.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Semi-dedicated Servers

Your semi-dedicated server account will be resistant to silent data corruption as all of our storage servers work with the effective ZFS file system. What makes the latter unique is that it employs checksums, or digital identifiers, so as to guarantee the integrity of each file. When you upload content to your account, it'll be saved on several redundant drives operating in a RAID i.e. the files shall be the same across all drives. All the copies of a particular file will have the same checksum on all hard disks and ZFS will compare the checksums of the duplicates quickly, so if it discovers a mismatch, which will indicate that one of the copies is damaged, it will swap that file with a healthy copy from one of the other disks. Even if there is a sudden power failure, the data on the servers will not become corrupted and there will not be any need for a time-consuming system check which other file systems perform after some malfunction, extending the time needed for the server to return online. ZFS is the file system which can really protect your content from silent data corruption.