Data corruption is the unintentional transformation of a file or the losing of info that usually occurs during reading or writing. The reason may be hardware or software malfunction, and as a result, a file could become partially or entirely corrupted, so it'll no longer work correctly since its bits will be scrambled or lost. An image file, for instance, will no longer present an actual image, but a random mix of colors, an archive will be impossible to unpack because its content will be unreadable, etcetera. When this kind of an issue appears and it's not found by the system or by an admin, the data will be corrupted silently and if this happens on a drive that's part of a RAID array where the info is synced between different drives, the corrupted file shall be duplicated on all of the other drives and the damage will be permanent. Many commonly used file systems either don't feature real-time checks or do not have high quality ones which can detect an issue before the damage is done, so silent data corruption is a very common issue on internet hosting servers where large volumes of data are stored.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Cloud Hosting

We warrant the integrity of the information uploaded in every cloud hosting account that is created on our cloud platform due to the fact that we employ the advanced ZFS file system. The latter is the only one that was designed to avert silent data corruption via a unique checksum for each and every file. We shall store your data on multiple NVMe drives which function in a RAID, so exactly the same files will be accessible on several places at once. ZFS checks the digital fingerprint of all files on all of the drives in real time and if the checksum of any file differs from what it needs to be, the file system replaces that file with a healthy version from a different drive from the RAID. No other file system uses checksums, so it's possible for data to be 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 will not have to concern yourself with the integrity of your information.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Semi-dedicated Hosting

You won't need to deal with any silent data corruption issues in case you purchase one of our semi-dedicated hosting packages since the ZFS file system that we use on our cloud hosting platform uses checksums in order to ensure that all of your files are intact at all times. A checksum is a unique digital fingerprint that is assigned to each and every file saved on a server. Due to the fact that we store all content on a number of 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 right away. 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 damaged copy to be synchronized on the rest of the hard drives. ZFS is the sole file system you will find that uses checksums, which makes it much more dependable than other file systems which are not able to detect silent data corruption and copy bad files across hard drives.