Data corruption is the damage of info due to various hardware or software failures. After a file gets damaged, it will no longer work correctly, so an application will not start or shall 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 info getting damaged without any identification by the system or an administrator, which makes it a significant problem for website hosting servers as failures are more likely to happen on larger in size hard drives where substantial volumes of information are stored. In case a drive is a part of a RAID and the information on it is duplicated on other drives for redundancy, it's more than likely that the bad file will be treated as an undamaged one and it'll be duplicated on all of the drives, making the damage permanent. A huge number of the file systems that operate on web servers today often are not able to find corrupted files right away or they need time-consuming system checks through which the server isn't functioning.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Shared Website Hosting

The integrity of the data which you upload to your new shared website hosting account will be guaranteed by the ZFS file system which we use on our cloud platform. The vast majority of hosting service providers, like our firm, use multiple hard drives to store content and because the drives work in a RAID, the exact same info is synchronized between the drives at all times. If a file on a drive becomes damaged for whatever reason, however, it's more than likely that it will be reproduced on the other drives since other file systems do not include special checks for that. Unlike them, ZFS employs a digital fingerprint, or a checksum, for every single file. If a file gets corrupted, its checksum won't match what ZFS has as a record for it, so the damaged copy shall be replaced with a good one from another drive. As this happens immediately, there's no possibility for any of your files to ever get corrupted.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Semi-dedicated Servers

You will not encounter any silent data corruption issues in case you acquire one of our semi-dedicated server plans since the ZFS file system that we work with on our cloud hosting platform uses checksums in order to guarantee that all of your files are intact all of the time. A checksum is a unique digital fingerprint which is allotted to each and every file stored on a server. Due to the fact that we store all content on multiple drives at the same time, the same file uses the same checksum on all the drives and what ZFS does is that it compares the checksums between the different drives right away. In the event that it detects that a file is corrupted and its checksum is different from what it has to be, it replaces that file with a healthy copy right away, avoiding any probability of the damaged copy to be synchronized on the remaining drives. ZFS is the sole file system available on the market which uses checksums, which makes it much more reliable than other file systems which are not able to identify silent data corruption and copy bad files across hard drives.