Data corruption is the accidental change of a file or the loss of information that usually occurs during reading or writing. The reason may be hardware or software failure, and for that reason, a file can become partially or entirely corrupted, so it'll no longer work as it should as its bits shall be scrambled or missing. An image file, for instance, will no longer present a true 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 an issue occurs and it's not noticed by the system or by an admin, the data will be corrupted silently and in case this happens on a disk drive which is a part of a RAID array where the info is synchronized between different drives, the corrupted file will be copied on all of the other drives and the harm will be long term. Many frequently used file systems either don't feature real-time checks or do not have high quality ones that will detect a problem before the damage is done, so silent data corruption is a rather common problem on internet hosting servers where substantial amounts of info are kept.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Cloud Hosting

We warrant the integrity of the info uploaded in each cloud hosting account which is generated on our cloud platform due to the fact that we use the advanced ZFS file system. The aforementioned is the only one that was designed to prevent silent data corruption via a unique checksum for each and every file. We'll store your data on a large number of NVMe drives that work in a RAID, so the same files will be available on several places at the same time. ZFS checks the digital fingerprint of all the files on all the drives in real time and in case the checksum of any file differs from what it should be, the file system swaps that file with a healthy copy from another drive in the RAID. No other file system uses checksums, so it's possible 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 running ZFS, you do not have to worry about the integrity of your info.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Semi-dedicated Hosting

You won't experience any kind of silent data corruption issues in case you obtain one of our semi-dedicated hosting solutions as the ZFS file system that we use on our cloud hosting platform uses checksums to make sure that all of your files are intact all of the time. A checksum is a unique digital fingerprint which is allotted to each and every file saved on a server. As we store all content on a number of drives at the same time, the same file has the same checksum on all of the drives and what ZFS does is that it compares the checksums between the different drives in real time. In the event that it detects that a file is corrupted and its checksum is different from what it should be, it replaces that file with a healthy copy right away, avoiding any probability of the bad copy to be synchronized on the remaining drives. ZFS is the sole file system on the market which uses checksums, which makes it far superior to other file systems which cannot detect silent data corruption and duplicate bad files across drives.