Data corruption is the unintended modification of a file or the losing of info that often occurs during reading or writing. The reason can be hardware or software failure, and due to this fact, a file may become partially or entirely corrupted, so it'll no longer function properly since its bits shall be scrambled or lost. An image file, for instance, will no longer show an authentic image, but a random combination of colors, an archive will be impossible to unpack as its content will be unreadable, etcetera. In the event that such a problem occurs and it isn't identified by the system or by an administrator, the data will be corrupted silently and when this happens on a drive that's part of a RAID array where the info is synced between various different drives, the corrupted file will be replicated on all other drives and the damage will become permanent. A large number of frequently used file systems either do not have 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 issue on web hosting servers where large volumes of data are kept.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Cloud Hosting

We warrant the integrity of the data uploaded in any cloud hosting account which is made on our cloud platform because we employ the advanced ZFS file system. The aforementioned is the only one which was designed to avert silent data corruption through a unique checksum for each and every file. We shall store your information on multiple NVMe drives that function in a RAID, so the very same files will exist on several places concurrently. ZFS checks the digital fingerprint of all of the files on all drives in real time and if the checksum of any file is different from what it needs to be, the file system replaces that file with an undamaged copy from a different drive inside the RAID. No other file system uses checksums, so it's easy for data to get silently damaged and the bad file to be duplicated on all drives with time, but since that can never happen on a server using ZFS, you do not have to worry about the integrity of your information.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Semi-dedicated Hosting

We've avoided any chance of files getting corrupted silently since the servers where your semi-dedicated hosting account will be created employ a powerful file system called ZFS. Its main advantage over other file systems is that it uses a unique checksum for each file - a digital fingerprint that is checked in real time. Since we save all content on numerous NVMe drives, ZFS checks whether the fingerprint of a file on one drive corresponds to the one on the remaining drives and the one it has stored. In the event that there's a mismatch, the corrupted copy is replaced with a good one from one of the other drives and because this happens right away, there's no chance that a damaged copy could remain on our web servers or that it could be duplicated to the other hard disks in the RAID. None of the other file systems include such checks and what's more, even during a file system check after a sudden electrical power failure, none of them can discover silently corrupted files. In comparison, ZFS will not crash after an electrical power failure and the continual checksum monitoring makes a lenghty file system check unneeded.