RAID in Shared Web Hosting
All of the content that you upload to your new shared web hosting account will be placed on fast NVMe drives that work in RAID-Z. This configuration is built to employ the ZFS file system that runs on our cloud hosting platform and it adds one more level of protection for your website content on top of the real-time checksum validation which ZFS uses to guarantee the integrity of the data. With RAID-Z, the data is saved on a number of disks and at least one is a parity disk - whenever information is recorded on it, an extra bit is added, so in the event that any drive stops working for whatever reason, the integrity of the info can be verified by recalculating its bits based on what is saved on the production hard drives and on the parity one. With RAID-Z, the operation of our system will never be interrupted and it will continue working flawlessly until the faulty drive is changed and the data is synchronized on it.
RAID in Semi-dedicated Hosting
The NVMe drives that are used for saving any site content uploaded to the semi-dedicated hosting accounts which we provide operate in RAID-Z. This is a special configuration where one or more hard drives are used for parity i.e. the system will include an additional bit to any data duplicated on this kind of a drive. In the event that a disk fails and is replaced with a new one, what info will be cloned on the latter shall be a mix calculated between the data on the remaining drives and that on the parity one. This is done to ensure that the data on the new drive will be correct. Throughout the procedure, the RAID will continue working adequately and the malfunctioning drive won't affect the normal operation of your sites in any respect. Using NVMes in RAID-Z is a great addition to the ZFS file system which runs on our state-of-the-art cloud platform with regard to preserving the integrity of your files because ZFS uses special digital identifiers referred to as checksums in order to avoid silent data corruption.
RAID in VPS Web Hosting
All virtual private server accounts which we provide are made on physical servers which take advantage of NVMe drives operating in RAID. At least one drive is intended for parity - one additional bit is included in the information duplicated on it and if a main disk stops working, this bit makes it easier to recalculate the bits of the files on the failed disk drive so that the accurate data is recovered on the new drive included in the RAID. In the mean time, your Internet sites will still be online since all the info will still load from at least 1 other drive. In case you add routine backups to your VPS package, a copy of the info will be saved on standard disk drives that also work in RAID as we would like to make certain that any kind of website content you add will be protected at all times. Working with multiple hard drives in RAID for all the main and backup servers allows us to offer fast and reliable web hosting service.