Data corruption is the accidental transformation of a file or the loss of information that usually occurs during reading or writing. The reason could be hardware or software fail, and consequently, a file could become partially or completely corrupted, so it'll no longer work correctly because its bits will be scrambled or lacking. An image file, for instance, will no longer present an actual image, but a random mix of colors, an archive will be impossible to unpack as its content will be unreadable, and so on. In the event that such a problem appears and it is not recognized by the system or by an administrator, the data will become corrupted silently and when this happens on a disk drive that's part of a RAID array where the data is synchronized between different drives, the corrupted file shall be duplicated on all of the other drives and the harm will be permanent. Numerous widely used file systems either do not feature 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 very common matter on hosting servers where huge volumes of information are kept.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Cloud Website Hosting

We guarantee the integrity of the data uploaded in any cloud website hosting account which is made on our cloud platform because we employ the advanced ZFS file system. The latter is the only one that was designed to avert silent data corruption thanks to a unique checksum for each file. We will store your information on multiple NVMe drives which work in a RAID, so the same files will be present on several places concurrently. ZFS checks the digital fingerprint of all files on all the drives in real time and if the checksum of any file is different from what it has to be, the file system swaps that file with an undamaged version from a different drive in the RAID. No other file system uses checksums, so it is possible for data to get silently damaged and the bad file to be reproduced on all drives with time, but since this can never happen on a server running ZFS, you won't have to worry about the integrity of your data.

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In case you acquire one of our semi-dedicated hosting plans, you will not have to be concerned about silent data corruption because we use ZFS - an advanced file system that keeps track of all the files in real time. Every time you upload a file to your website hosting account, ZFS will assign a unique digital fingerprint to it - the so-called checksum. That file will be synced between several NVMe drives for redundancy, so if a drive fails, the other ones will take control. ZFS compares the checksum of all the copies on the different drives and if it detects a corrupted copy, it replaces it with a healthy one from another drive. This happens instantly, so there will be no danger for any part of your content at any moment. By comparison, all the other file systems execute checks only after a system breakdown, but since they do not use anything similar to the checksums that ZFS uses, they are unable to detect silently corrupted files, so a bad copy can be replicated on the other drives as well and you may lose precious information. Since this isn't the case with ZFS, we can guarantee the integrity of each and every file you upload no matter what.