Data corruption is the accidental change of a file or the losing of information which usually occurs during reading or writing. The reason could be hardware or software failure, and due to this fact, a file may become partially or fully corrupted, so it'll no longer function as it should since its bits will be scrambled or missing. An image file, for example, will no longer present an authentic image, but a random combination of colors, an archive will be impossible to unpack because its content will be unreadable, etc. If this kind of an issue appears and it is not identified by the system or by an admin, the data will be corrupted silently and when this happens on a drive that's a part of a RAID array where the information is synchronized between various drives, the corrupted file will be replicated on all the other drives and the harm will become long term. Many commonly used file systems either do not feature real-time checks or don't have good ones that can detect a problem 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 Website Hosting

We guarantee the integrity of the information uploaded in any cloud website hosting account that is made on our cloud platform since we use the advanced ZFS file system. The latter is the only one which was designed to prevent silent data corruption through a unique checksum for each file. We will store your info on a number of NVMe drives which operate in a RAID, so the same files will be present on several places concurrently. ZFS checks the digital fingerprint of all the files on all of the drives in real time and in the event that the checksum of any file differs from what it has to be, the file system swaps that file with an undamaged copy from a different drive from the RAID. No other file system uses checksums, so it's easy for data to get silently corrupted and the bad file to be replicated on all drives over time, but since that can never happen on a server using ZFS, you don't have to concern yourself with the integrity of your data.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you acquire one of our semi-dedicated hosting plans, you will not need to worry about silent file corruption as we use ZFS - a high level file system that checks all files in real time. Whenever you upload a file to your web hosting account, ZFS will assign a unique digital fingerprint to it - the so-called checksum. This file will be synced between multiple NVMe drives for redundancy, so if one drive fails, the other ones will take over. ZFS compares the checksum of all of the copies on the different drives and when it detects a damaged copy, it replaces it with a healthy one from another drive. This happens instantly, so there will be no risk for any part of your content at any time. In comparison, all of the other file systems carry out checks only after a system malfunction, but since they don't use anything similar to the checksums that ZFS uses, they can't detect silently corrupted files, so a bad copy could be replicated on the remaining disks as well and you may lose critical data. Because this isn't the case with ZFS, we guarantee the integrity of every single file you upload no matter what.