Data corruption is the unintended modification of a file or the loss of information that often occurs during reading or writing. The reason can be hardware or software fail, and because of this, a file can become partially or completely corrupted, so it will no longer work as it should as its bits shall be scrambled or lacking. An image file, for example, will no longer show an actual image, but a random mix of colors, an archive will be impossible to unpack since its content will be unreadable, and so on. If this kind of an issue occurs and it's not identified by the system or by an administrator, the data will be corrupted silently and in case this happens on a drive that's part of a RAID array where the data is synchronized between various different drives, the corrupted file will be copied on all other drives and the harm will be long term. A number of frequently used file systems either don't have real-time checks or do not have good ones that will detect an issue before the damage is done, so silent data corruption is a rather common problem on web hosting servers where large amounts of info are stored.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Cloud Web Hosting

The integrity of the data which you upload to your new cloud web hosting account shall be ensured by the ZFS file system that we employ on our cloud platform. The majority of internet hosting providers, like our firm, use multiple hard disk drives to keep content and since the drives work in a RAID, the exact same info is synchronized between the drives at all times. If a file on a drive is corrupted for whatever reason, however, it's very likely that it will be duplicated on the other drives as alternative file systems don't have special checks for that. Unlike them, ZFS applies a digital fingerprint, or a checksum, for every single file. If a file gets damaged, its checksum will not match what ZFS has as a record for it, therefore the bad copy shall be substituted with a good one from another hard disk. As this happens instantly, there is no possibility for any of your files to ever be damaged.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Semi-dedicated Hosting

In case you buy one of our semi-dedicated hosting packages, you won't have to be concerned about silent data corruption as we use ZFS - an advanced file system that keeps track of all of the files in real time. Each time you upload a file to your account, ZFS will assign a unique digital fingerprint to it - the so-called checksum. The file will be synchronized between multiple NVMe drives for redundancy, so if a drive fails, the other ones will take over. ZFS compares the checksum of all of the copies on the different drives and in case it detects a damaged copy, it replaces it with a healthy one from another drive. This is done right away, so there will be no danger for any part of your content at any moment. In comparison, all the other file systems perform checks only after a system breakdown, but since they don't use anything similar to the checksums which ZFS uses, they won't detect silently corrupted files, so a bad copy may be replicated on the other drives as well and you may lose crucial information. As this isn't the case with ZFS, we are able to warrant the integrity of each file you upload no matter what.