Data corruption is the unintentional modification of a file or the loss of information that often occurs during reading or writing. The reason can be hardware or software failure, and as a result, a file could become partially or entirely corrupted, so it will no longer work as it should as its bits will be scrambled or lost. An image file, for example, will no longer display a true image, but a random combination of colors, an archive will be impossible to unpack because its content will be unreadable, etcetera. When this kind of a problem appears and it is not found by the system or by an admin, the data will get corrupted silently and when this happens on a drive that's a part of a RAID array where the info is synced between various different drives, the corrupted file will be reproduced on all of the other drives and the damage will become long term. Numerous popular file systems either don't feature real-time checks or do not have good ones which will detect an issue before the damage is done, so silent data corruption is a common problem on hosting servers where large volumes of information are stored.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Hosting

We guarantee the integrity of the information uploaded in every single hosting account that is created on our cloud platform as we employ the advanced ZFS file system. The latter is the only one which was designed to avoid silent data corruption through a unique checksum for every single file. We'll store your data on a large number of NVMe drives that operate in a RAID, so identical files will be present 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 the event that the checksum of any file is different from what it has to be, the file system swaps that file with a healthy copy from another drive in the RAID. There's no other file system which uses checksums, so it's easy for data to be silently damaged and the bad file to be duplicated on all drives with time, but since this can never happen on a server using ZFS, you do not have to concern yourself with the integrity of your information.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Semi-dedicated Servers

You will not have to deal with any silent data corruption issues whatsoever should you purchase one of our semi-dedicated server plans since the ZFS file system that we take advantage of on our cloud hosting platform uses checksums in order to ensure that all of your files are intact all of the time. A checksum is a unique digital fingerprint that is assigned to each and every file saved on a server. As we store all content on multiple drives simultaneously, the same file uses the same checksum on all the drives and what ZFS does is that it compares the checksums between the different drives in real time. In case 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 rest of the drives. ZFS is the only file system available on the market which uses checksums, which makes it much more dependable than other file systems that are unable to identify silent data corruption and copy bad files across hard drives.