Data corruption is the unintended modification of a file or the loss of info that usually occurs during reading or writing. The reason could be hardware or software fail, and due to this fact, a file could become partially or completely corrupted, so it'll no longer function correctly since its bits shall be scrambled or lacking. An image file, for instance, will no longer show a real image, but a random mix of colors, an archive will be impossible to unpack since its content will be unreadable, and so on. In the event that such an issue occurs and it is not found by the system or by an administrator, the data will become corrupted silently and if this happens on a drive that is part of a RAID array where the data is synchronized between various different drives, the corrupted file will be replicated on all other drives and the harm will become permanent. Numerous widespread file systems either don't offer real-time checks or don't have high quality ones which can detect a problem before the damage is done, so silent data corruption is a very common problem on web hosting servers where substantial volumes of data are stored.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Cloud Website Hosting

The integrity of the data that you upload to your new cloud website hosting account will be guaranteed by the ZFS file system which we take advantage of on our cloud platform. Most internet hosting providers, including our company, use multiple hard disks to keep content and since the drives work in a RAID, the exact same information is synchronized between the drives at all times. When a file on a drive gets damaged for reasons unknown, yet, it is very likely that it will be duplicated on the other drives as alternative file systems don't have special checks for this. Unlike them, ZFS works with a digital fingerprint, or a checksum, for each and every file. If a file gets damaged, its checksum won't match what ZFS has as a record for it, so the bad copy shall be substituted with a good one from another drive. Due to the fact that this happens right away, there's no possibility for any of your files to ever get corrupted.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Semi-dedicated Hosting

In case you obtain one of our semi-dedicated hosting plans, you will not need to worry about silent file corruption since we use ZFS - an advanced file system that monitors all of the files in real time. Every time you upload a file to your web hosting account, ZFS will assign a unique digital fingerprint to it - the so-called checksum. That file will be synchronized between multiple NVMe drives for redundancy, so if one drive fails, the other ones will take control. ZFS compares the checksum of all of the copies on the different drives and if it detects a damaged copy, it replaces it with a healthy one from another drive. This is done instantly, so there will be no threat for any part of your content at any time. By comparison, all of the other file systems carry out checks after a system breakdown, but since they don't use anything similar to the checksums that ZFS uses, they won't detect silently corrupted files, so a corrupted copy may be replicated on the remaining disks as well and you can lose precious data. Since this is not the case with ZFS, we're able to guarantee the integrity of every single file you upload no matter what.