No Data Corruption & Data Integrity
What does the 'No Data Corruption & Data Integrity' motto mean to each Internet hosting account owner?
The process of files being corrupted resulting from some hardware or software failure is called data corruption and this is among the main problems that hosting companies face since the larger a hard disk is and the more info is kept on it, the more likely it is for data to become corrupted. There are several fail-safes, but often the data becomes damaged silently, so neither the file system, nor the admins notice anything. Thus, a damaged file will be treated as a standard one and if the hard disk drive is part of a RAID, that file will be duplicated on all other drives. Theoretically, this is for redundancy, but in practice the damage will get even worse. The moment a given file gets corrupted, it will be partly or entirely unreadable, therefore a text file will not be readable, an image file will present a random mix of colors if it opens at all and an archive will be impossible to unpack, and you risk losing your content. Although the most widely used server file systems feature various checks, they are likely to fail to find some problem early enough or require a long amount of time to check all the files and the server will not be operational in the meantime.
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No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Shared Web Hosting
We have dealt with the issue of silent data corruption on all of our
shared web hosting servers by using the state-of-the-art Z file system, or ZFS. The latter is superior to other file systems since 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 each file. When you upload content to your account, it will be stored on several NVMe drives and constantly synchronized between them for redundancy. ZFS regularly examines the checksum of all files and if any file is detected as corrupted, it is replaced instantly with a good copy from some other disk. As this happens in real time, there is no risk that a bad file may remain or may be duplicated on the rest of the NVMes. ZFS needs lots of physical memory in order to carry out the real-time checks and the advantage of our cloud hosting platform is that we employ multiple powerful servers working together. If you host your websites with us, your info will be undamaged no matter what.
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No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Semi-dedicated Servers
Your
semi-dedicated server account will be resistant to silent data corruption since all our storage servers work with the effective ZFS file system. What makes the aforementioned unique is that it uses checksums, or digital identifiers, in order to guarantee the integrity of every single file. When you upload content to your account, it'll be placed on a couple of redundant drives in a RAID i.e. the files will be the same across all drives. All copies of a given file will have the same checksum on all hard drives and ZFS will compare the checksums of the duplicates in real time, and if it identifies a mismatch, which will indicate that one of the copies is corrupted, it'll replace that file with a good copy from one of the other disks. Even if there's an unforeseen power loss, the data on the servers will not become corrupted and there won't be any need for a time-consuming system check which other file systems perform following some breakdown, prolonging 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.