Data corruption is the accidental modification of a file or the losing of information which often occurs during reading or writing. The reason could be hardware or software fail, and for that reason, a file could become partially or fully corrupted, so it'll no longer work as it should since its bits shall be scrambled or missing. An image file, for example, will no longer show a true image, but a random combination of colors, an archive will be impossible to unpack as its content will be unreadable, etcetera. If such an issue appears and it's not identified by the system or by an administrator, the data will get corrupted silently and in case this happens on a disk drive which is a part of a RAID array where the information is synced between various different drives, the corrupted file shall be replicated on all the other drives and the harm will be permanent. Numerous widely used file systems either do not have real-time checks or do not have good ones which can detect a problem before the damage is done, so silent data corruption is a common issue on internet hosting servers where huge amounts of info are stored.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Shared Web Hosting

The integrity of the data that you upload to your new shared web hosting account will be ensured by the ZFS file system that we take advantage of on our cloud platform. The vast majority of internet hosting providers, including our company, use multiple hard disk drives to keep content and because the drives work in a RAID, the same information is synchronized between the drives at all times. If a file on a drive gets corrupted for some reason, yet, it is likely that it will be duplicated on the other drives because other file systems do not include special checks for this. Unlike them, ZFS works with a digital fingerprint, or a checksum, for each file. If a file gets corrupted, its checksum won't match what ZFS has as a record for it, therefore the bad copy will be substituted with a good one from a different hard disk. Because this happens instantly, there is no possibility for any of your files to ever be corrupted.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Your semi-dedicated hosting account will be resistant to silent data corruption since all of our storage servers employ the innovative ZFS file system. What makes the latter unique is that it employs checksums, or digital identifiers, in order to guarantee the integrity of every single file. When you upload content to your account, it'll be stored on a couple of redundant drives employed in a RAID i.e. the files shall be the same on all disk drives. All the copies of a specific file will feature the same checksum on all hard disks and ZFS will compare the checksums of the copies in real time, and if it registers a mismatch, which will indicate that one of the copies is damaged, it'll replace that file with a good copy from one of the other disks. Even if there is an unexpected power failure, the data on the servers won't get corrupted and there will not be any need for a time-consuming system check which other file systems perform after some breakdown, lengthening the time needed for the server to get back online. ZFS is the file system that can really protect your content from silent data corruption.