Data corruption is the unintentional modification of a file or the losing of info which often occurs during reading or writing. The reason can be hardware or software failure, and for that reason, a file could become partially or completely corrupted, so it will no longer function correctly since its bits will be scrambled or lacking. An image file, for instance, will no longer show an accurate 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 this kind of an issue appears and it isn't noticed by the system or by an admin, the data will be corrupted silently and in case this happens on a drive which is part of a RAID array where the data is synchronized between various drives, the corrupted file will be duplicated on all other drives and the damage will be long term. A large number of commonly used file systems either don't have real-time checks or don't have high quality ones that will detect a problem before the damage is done, so silent data corruption is a rather common problem on web hosting servers where huge volumes of information are kept.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Shared Hosting

We warrant the integrity of the info uploaded in any shared hosting account which is created on our cloud platform as we employ the advanced ZFS file system. The aforementioned is the only one that was designed to avoid silent data corruption through a unique checksum for every single file. We shall store your data on a number of NVMe drives which operate in a RAID, so the same files will exist on several places simultaneously. ZFS checks the digital fingerprint of all files on all drives in real time and if the checksum of any file differs from what it needs to be, the file system replaces that file with an undamaged copy from another drive from the RAID. No other file system uses checksums, so it's easy for data to become silently corrupted and the bad file to be reproduced on all drives over time, but since that can never happen on a server running ZFS, you will not have to concern yourself with the integrity of your data.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you obtain one of our semi-dedicated server plans, you won't need to be concerned about silent data corruption since we use ZFS - an advanced file system which keeps track of all of the files in real time. Each 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 synced between a couple of NVMe drives for redundancy, so if a drive fails, the other ones will take control. ZFS compares the checksum of all copies on the different drives and when it detects a corrupted copy, it replaces it with a healthy one from a different drive. This is done immediately, so there will be no risk for any part of your content at any time. In contrast, all of the other file systems carry out checks only after a system breakdown, but since they do not use anything similar to the checksums which ZFS uses, they will not detect silently corrupted files, so a corrupted copy can be replicated on the rest of the disks as well and you can lose precious information. Because this is not the case with ZFS, we warrant the integrity of each and every file you upload no matter what.