Data corruption is the unintentional change of a file or the loss of info that usually occurs during reading or writing. The reason can be hardware or software failure, and as a result, a file may become partially or completely corrupted, so it'll no longer work as it should since its bits shall be scrambled or lacking. An image file, for instance, will no longer show a true image, but a random combination of colors, an archive will be impossible to unpack for the reason that its content will be unreadable, etcetera. When such an issue occurs and it isn't found by the system or by an admin, the data will become corrupted silently and if this happens on a drive that is part of a RAID array where the info is synchronized between different drives, the corrupted file shall be reproduced on all of the other drives and the harm will be long term. Many widespread file systems either do not feature real-time checks or don't have high quality ones which will detect an issue before the damage is done, so silent data corruption is a very common matter on hosting servers where large amounts of info are kept.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Web Hosting

The integrity of the data which you upload to your new web hosting account will be guaranteed by the ZFS file system that we make use of on our cloud platform. The majority of internet hosting service providers, including our firm, use multiple hard disk drives to store content and considering that the drives work in a RAID, the same info is synchronized between the drives all of the time. When a file on a drive gets corrupted for whatever reason, yet, it's likely that it will be duplicated on the other drives as alternative file systems don't offer special checks for this. Unlike them, ZFS works with a digital fingerprint, or a checksum, for every file. In case a file gets damaged, its checksum won't match what ZFS has as a record for it, and the damaged copy shall be swapped with a good one from another hard drive. Due to the fact that this happens in real time, there is no risk for any of your files to ever be damaged.

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 work with the advanced ZFS file system. What makes the latter unique is that it uses checksums, or digital identifiers, to verify the integrity of each and every file. When you upload content to your account, it will be saved on a couple of redundant drives being employed in a RAID i.e. the files shall be the same across all disks. All the copies of a particular file will have the same checksum on all hard disks and ZFS will compare the checksums of the duplicates quickly, and if it identifies a mismatch, that would indicate that one of the copies is damaged, it will replace that file with a good copy from one of the other drives. 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 which other file systems perform after some breakdown, prolonging the time needed for the server to return online. ZFS is the only file system that can really protect your content from silent data corruption.