Data corruption is the unintentional transformation of a file or the losing of information which often occurs during reading or writing. The reason can be hardware or software malfunction, and due to this fact, a file could become partially or completely corrupted, so it'll no longer function properly because its bits will be scrambled or missing. An image file, for example, will no longer present a true image, but a random combination of colors, an archive will be impossible to unpack since its content will be unreadable, etcetera. In the event that such an issue occurs and it is not recognized by the system or by an admin, the data will become corrupted silently and when this happens on a drive that's part of a RAID array where the data is synchronized between various different drives, the corrupted file shall be copied on all of the other drives and the damage will be long term. Numerous widespread file systems either don't feature real-time checks or do not have high quality ones which can detect a problem before the damage is done, so silent data corruption is a very common matter on web hosting servers where large volumes of data are kept.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Hosting

The integrity of the data which you upload to your new hosting account shall be guaranteed by the ZFS file system that we make use of on our cloud platform. The majority of internet hosting suppliers, including our firm, use multiple hard drives to store content and since the drives work in a RAID, the exact same information is synchronized between the drives all the time. When a file on a drive gets corrupted for whatever reason, yet, it's likely that it will be copied on the other drives as alternative file systems don't include special checks for this. Unlike them, ZFS uses a digital fingerprint, or a checksum, for each and every file. In the event that a file gets corrupted, its checksum will not match what ZFS has as a record for it, therefore the bad copy shall be substituted with a good one from a different hard disk. Since this happens instantly, there's no risk for any of your files to ever be corrupted.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you obtain one of our semi-dedicated hosting packages, you won't have to be concerned about silent file corruption since we use ZFS - a high level file system that checks all files in real time. Each time you upload a file to your web hosting account, ZFS will assign a unique digital fingerprint to it - the so-called checksum. This file will be synchronized between a couple of NVMe drives for redundancy, so if a drive fails, the other ones will take over. ZFS compares the checksum of all the copies on the different drives and when it detects a damaged copy, it replaces it with a healthy one from another drive. This happens instantly, so there will be no risk for any part of your content at any moment. In comparison, all of the other file systems execute checks after a system breakdown, but since they don't use anything similar to the checksums which ZFS uses, they cannot detect silently corrupted files, so a corrupted copy can be replicated on the rest of the drives as well and you may lose critical data. Because this is not the case with ZFS, we are able to guarantee the integrity of each and every file you upload no matter what.