The process of files getting corrupted owing to some hardware or software failure is known as data corruption and this is among the main problems which Internet hosting companies face as the larger a hard disk drive is and the more data is filed on it, the more likely it is for data to become corrupted. You will find different fail-safes, yet often the information gets damaged silently, so neither the file system, nor the administrators see anything. Consequently, a corrupted file will be treated as a good one and if the HDD is a part of a RAID, that particular file will be duplicated on all other disk drives. In theory, this is done for redundancy, but in reality the damage will get worse. When a file gets corrupted, it will be partly or completely unreadable, so a text file will no longer be readable, an image file will present a random combination of colors in case it opens at all and an archive will be impossible to unpack, so you risk sacrificing your website content. Although the most commonly used server file systems include various checks, they quite often fail to discover a problem early enough or require a long period of time to check all the files and the web server will not be operational for the time being.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Cloud Hosting

We've resolved the matter of silent data corruption on all of our cloud hosting servers by using the modern Z file system, or ZFS. The latter is superior to other file systems because it is the only one on the market which checks all of the files in real time by using a checksum - a digital identifier which is unique for every single file. When you upload content to your account, it will be stored on several NVMe drives and regularly synchronized between them for redundancy. ZFS regularly analyzes the checksum of all files and if any file is detected as damaged, it is replaced quickly with a good copy from some other disk. As this happens in real time, there is no risk that a damaged file may remain or may be duplicated on the remaining NVMes. ZFS needs lots of physical memory in order to perform the real-time checks and the advantage of our cloud hosting platform is that we employ multiple very powerful servers working together. In case you host your Internet sites with us, your info will be undamaged no matter what.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Your semi-dedicated hosting account will be shielded from silent data corruption because all of our storage servers work with the efficient ZFS file system. What makes the aforementioned unique is that it employs checksums, or digital identifiers, in order to verify the integrity of each file. When you upload content to your account, it will be kept on several redundant drives being employed in a RAID i.e. the files will be the same on all disks. All copies of a given file will have the same checksum on all hard drives and ZFS will compare the checksums of the duplicates quickly, so if it discovers a mismatch, that will indicate that one of the copies is corrupted, it will swap that file with a healthy copy from one of the other drives. Even if there is an unforeseen power loss, the data on the servers won't get corrupted and there won't be any need for a time-consuming system check that other file systems perform following some malfunction, extending the time needed for the server to go back online. ZFS is the only file system that can truly protect your content from silent data corruption.

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