Data corruption is the unintentional transformation of a file or the losing of information which often occurs during reading or writing. The reason could be hardware or software failure, and for that reason, a file may become partially or fully corrupted, so it'll no longer work correctly as its bits shall be scrambled or missing. An image file, for instance, will no longer display a true image, but a random combination of colors, an archive will be impossible to unpack as its content will be unreadable, and so on. In case such a problem occurs and it's not identified by the system or by an administrator, the data will become corrupted silently and in case this happens on a disk drive that is part of a RAID array where the information is synced between various drives, the corrupted file shall be replicated on all other drives and the damage will be long term. Numerous widespread file systems either don't have real-time checks or do not have good ones that can detect an issue before the damage is done, so silent data corruption is a common issue on hosting servers where huge volumes of info are stored.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Cloud Hosting

We guarantee the integrity of the info uploaded in each cloud hosting account which is made on our cloud platform as we work with the advanced ZFS file system. The aforementioned is the only one which was designed to avert silent data corruption using a unique checksum for each and every file. We will store your information on a large number of NVMe drives that work in a RAID, so identical files will be present on several places at the same time. ZFS checks the digital fingerprint of all files on all of the drives in real time and in case the checksum of any file differs from what it needs to be, the file system swaps that file with a healthy version from another drive in the RAID. There's no other file system that uses checksums, so it's possible for data to become silently corrupted and the bad file to be replicated on all drives with time, but since that can never happen on a server using ZFS, you don't have to worry about the integrity of your information.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Your semi-dedicated hosting account will be shielded from silent data corruption as all of our storage servers employ the reliable ZFS file system. What makes the latter unique is that it uses checksums, or digital identifiers, in order to guarantee the integrity of each and every file. When you upload content to your account, it will be placed on a couple of redundant drives working in a RAID i.e. the files shall be the same across all drives. All of the copies of a particular file will have the same checksum on all hard disks and ZFS will compare the checksums of the duplicates right away, and if it finds a mismatch, which would 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 an unexpected blackout, the data on the servers will not be corrupted and there won't be any need for a time-consuming system check that other file systems perform following some malfunction, extending the time needed for the server to get back online. ZFS is the only file system which can really protect your content from silent data corruption.