Data corruption is the damage of information caused by various software or hardware failures. After a file is corrupted, it will no longer function properly, so an application will not start or will give errors, a text file will be partially or completely unreadable, an archive will be impossible to open and unpack, etc. Silent data corruption is the process of info getting harmed without any identification by the system or an admin, which makes it a serious problem for website hosting servers as problems are more likely to occur on larger hard disks where significant volumes of information are kept. In case a drive is part of a RAID and the information on it is replicated on other drives for redundancy, it is more than likely that the damaged file will be treated as an ordinary one and it'll be duplicated on all of the drives, making the harm permanent. A huge number of the file systems that run on web servers today often cannot find corrupted files in real time or they need time-consuming system checks through which the server isn't functioning.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Shared Web Hosting

We guarantee the integrity of the info uploaded in every single shared web hosting account which is created on our cloud platform because we employ the advanced ZFS file system. The aforementioned is the only one which was designed to avoid silent data corruption through a unique checksum for each file. We will store your information on a number of NVMe drives which operate in a RAID, so identical files will be available on several places simultaneously. ZFS checks the digital fingerprint of all of the files on all of 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 version from some other drive from the RAID. There's no other file system that uses checksums, so it is easy for data to be silently damaged and the bad file to be reproduced on all drives over time, but since this can never happen on a server running ZFS, you do not have to concern yourself with the integrity of your information.