Data corruption is the damage of data due to various hardware or software fails. After a file gets corrupted, it will no longer work accurately, so an app will not start or will give errors, a text file will be partially or completely unreadable, an archive file will be impossible to open and unpack, etc. Silent data corruption is the process of information getting damaged without any acknowledgement by the system or an admin, which makes it a serious problem for web hosting servers as problems are more likely to happen on bigger hard disks where considerable volumes of info are kept. If a drive is part of a RAID and the information on it is duplicated on other drives for redundancy, it's more than likely that the bad file will be treated as an ordinary one and will be duplicated on all drives, making the damage permanent. A huge number of the file systems that run on web servers today often are unable to locate corrupted files right away or they need time-consuming system checks during which the server is not working.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Website Hosting

If you host your websites in a website hosting account from our company, you do not need to worry about any of your data ever getting corrupted. We can ensure that as our cloud hosting platform uses the state-of-the-art ZFS file system. The aforementioned is the only file system which works with checksums, or unique digital fingerprints, for every single file. Any kind of information that you upload will be stored in a RAID i.e. simultaneously on many different SSDs. A lot of file systems synchronize the files between the separate drives using this kind of a setup, but there's no real guarantee that a file will not get corrupted. This can occur at the time of the writing process on each drive and then a corrupted copy may be copied on the rest of the drives. What is different on our platform is that ZFS examines the checksums of all files on all drives in real time and if a corrupted file is found, it is swapped with a good copy with the correct checksum from another drive. By doing this, your information will continue to be undamaged no matter what, even if an entire drive fails.

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Your semi-dedicated hosting account will be shielded from silent data corruption because all our storage servers use the effective ZFS file system. What makes the latter unique is that it uses checksums, or digital identifiers, in order to ensure the integrity of each and every file. When you upload content to your account, it'll be stored on a couple of redundant drives operating in a RAID i.e. the files will be the same across all disk drives. All copies of a specific file will have the same checksum on all drives and ZFS will compare the checksums of the copies in real time, so if it finds a mismatch, that will indicate that one of the copies is corrupted, it'll substitute that file with a healthy copy from one of the other disks. Even if there is an unforeseen power loss, the data on the servers won't be corrupted and there won't be any need for a time-consuming system check that other file systems perform after some breakdown, lengthening the time needed for the server to return online. ZFS is the only file system which can truly protect your content from silent data corruption.