RAID in Shared Website Hosting
The NVMe drives which our cutting-edge cloud Internet hosting platform uses for storage function in RAID-Z. This type of RAID is developed to work with the ZFS file system which runs on the platform and it uses the so-called parity disk - a special drive where info located on the other drives is duplicated with an extra bit added to it. If one of the disks fails, your Internet sites shall continue working from the other ones and after we replace the problematic one, the information that will be cloned on it will be recovered from what is stored on the other drives together with the data from the parity disk. This is done so as to be able to recalculate the elements of every file properly and to verify the integrity of the info duplicated on the new drive. This is another level of security for the content you upload to your shared website hosting account along with the ZFS file system which analyzes a special digital fingerprint for every single file on all the disk drives in real time.
RAID in Semi-dedicated Servers
The data uploaded to any semi-dedicated server account is saved on NVMe drives that function in RAID-Z. One of the drives in such a setup is used for parity - any time data is cloned on it, an extra bit is added. In case a disk turns out to be faulty, it will be removed from the RAID without interrupting the operation of the sites because the data will load from the other drives, and when a brand new drive is added, the information that will be duplicated on it will be a combination between the info on the parity disk and data kept on the other drives in the RAID. This is done to guarantee that the data which is being cloned is accurate, so as soon as the new drive is rebuilt, it could be incorporated into the RAID as a production one. This is an extra warranty for the integrity of your info since the ZFS file system which runs on our cloud Internet hosting platform compares a special checksum of all the copies of the files on the various drives so as to avoid any possibility of silent data corruption.