Data corruption is the accidental transformation of a file or the losing of information which often occurs during reading or writing. The reason can be hardware or software failure, and consequently, a file can become partially or entirely corrupted, so it'll no longer function correctly since its bits will be scrambled or missing. An image file, for instance, will no longer display a real image, but a random combination of colors, an archive will be impossible to unpack as its content will be unreadable, etc. When such a problem occurs and it's not found by the system or by an administrator, the data will become corrupted silently and when this happens on a drive that is a part of a RAID array where the info is synced between various different drives, the corrupted file shall be replicated on all the other drives and the damage will be long term. A large number of popular file systems either don't have real-time checks or don't have good ones which can detect an issue before the damage is done, so silent data corruption is a rather common issue on hosting servers where huge volumes of information are kept.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Web Hosting

The integrity of the data that you upload to your new web hosting account will be ensured by the ZFS file system which we take advantage of on our cloud platform. The vast majority of internet hosting providers, including our firm, use multiple hard disk drives to keep content and considering that the drives work in a RAID, identical information is synchronized between the drives all the time. When a file on a drive becomes damaged for reasons unknown, yet, it is very likely that it will be duplicated on the other drives because alternative file systems don't have special checks for that. Unlike them, ZFS employs a digital fingerprint, or a checksum, for each and every file. In the event that a file gets damaged, its checksum won't match what ZFS has as a record for it, and the bad copy will be replaced with a good one from another drive. Due to the fact that this happens in real time, there is no possibility for any of your files to ever get corrupted.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Semi-dedicated Hosting

In case you acquire one of our semi-dedicated hosting plans, you will not have to worry about silent data corruption since we use ZFS - an advanced file system that keeps track of all the files in real time. Whenever you upload a file to your account, ZFS will assign a unique digital fingerprint to it - the so-called checksum. That file will be synchronized between a couple of NVMe drives for redundancy, so if one drive fails, the other ones will take control. ZFS compares the checksum of all copies on the different drives and if it detects a damaged copy, it replaces it with a healthy one from a different drive. This is done right away, so there will be no risk for any part of your content at any time. In contrast, other file systems carry out checks only after a system breakdown, but since they do not use anything similar to the checksums that ZFS uses, they can't detect silently corrupted files, so a bad copy can be replicated on the other disks as well and you can lose important data. Because this isn't the case with ZFS, we can warrant the integrity of every single file you upload no matter what.