Data corruption is the unintentional modification of a file or the loss of info which usually occurs during reading or writing. The reason could be hardware or software failure, and for that reason, a file may become partially or completely corrupted, so it will no longer function properly since its bits will be scrambled or lost. An image file, for example, will no longer present a real image, but a random combination of colors, an archive will be impossible to unpack since its content will be unreadable, etcetera. In case such a problem appears and it's not identified by the system or by an admin, the data will become corrupted silently and when this happens on a disk drive that is a part of a RAID array where the information is synchronized between various different drives, the corrupted file shall be replicated on all other drives and the harm will become permanent. A large number of frequently used file systems either do not offer 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 common issue on hosting servers where large volumes of info are stored.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Cloud Hosting

We guarantee the integrity of the information uploaded in any cloud hosting account which is created on our cloud platform since we work with the advanced ZFS file system. The latter is the only one that was designed to prevent silent data corruption through a unique checksum for each file. We shall store your information 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 in the event that the checksum of any file differs from what it should be, the file system replaces that file with a healthy version from some other drive in the RAID. No other file system uses checksums, so it's possible for data to become silently damaged and the bad file to be duplicated on all drives with time, but since that can never happen on a server using ZFS, you won't have to concern yourself with the integrity of your data.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Semi-dedicated Servers

You will not experience any kind of silent data corruption issues should you purchase one of our semi-dedicated server solutions because the ZFS file system that we work with on our cloud hosting platform uses checksums in order to guarantee that all of your files are intact all the time. A checksum is a unique digital fingerprint that is allotted to each and every file kept on a server. As we store all content on a number of drives at the same time, the same file uses the same checksum on all drives and what ZFS does is that it compares the checksums between the different drives right away. 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 without delay, avoiding any probability of the bad copy to be synchronized on the other drives. ZFS is the only file system you can find that uses checksums, which makes it much more reliable than other file systems which are unable to detect silent data corruption and copy bad files across drives.