Data corruption is the unintentional change of a file or the losing of information which often occurs during reading or writing. The reason can be hardware or software malfunction, and consequently, a file can become partially or fully corrupted, so it will no longer function correctly since its bits will be scrambled or lacking. An image file, for instance, will no longer show a real image, but a random mix of colors, an archive will be impossible to unpack for the reason that its content will be unreadable, etc. In the event that such an issue appears and it's not noticed by the system or by an admin, the data will become corrupted silently and in case this happens on a disk drive which is part of a RAID array where the information is synchronized between various different drives, the corrupted file will be reproduced on all of the other drives and the harm will be long term. Numerous frequently used file systems either do not have real-time checks or don't have high quality ones which can detect a problem before the damage is done, so silent data corruption is a common problem on web hosting servers where substantial amounts of data are kept.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Website Hosting

The integrity of the data which you upload to your new website hosting account will be ensured by the ZFS file system that we use on our cloud platform. Most of the internet hosting service providers, like our company, use multiple hard disk drives to keep content and because the drives work in a RAID, exactly the same data is synchronized between the drives all of the time. In case a file on a drive is corrupted for reasons unknown, yet, it's likely that it will be copied on the other drives since other file systems do not feature special checks for that. In contrast to them, ZFS works with a digital fingerprint, or a checksum, for each and every file. In the event that a file gets corrupted, its checksum will not match what ZFS has as a record for it, therefore the damaged copy will be substituted with a good one from another hard drive. As this happens instantly, there's no possibility for any of your files to ever get damaged.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Your semi-dedicated hosting account will be shielded from silent data corruption since all of our storage servers use the reliable ZFS file system. What makes the latter unique is that it employs checksums, or digital identifiers, in order to ensure the integrity of each file. When you upload content to your account, it will be kept on several redundant drives working in a RAID i.e. the files will be the same across all drives. All copies of a given file will feature the same checksum on all drives and ZFS will compare the checksums of the copies in real time, so if it registers 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 an unexpected power failure, the data on the servers will not be corrupted and there will not 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 only file system that can truly protect your content from silent data corruption.