RAID in Shared Website Hosting
The state-of-the-art cloud Internet hosting platform where all shared website hosting accounts are made employs quick NVMe drives instead of the traditional HDDs, and they function in RAID-Z. With this setup, a number of hard disk drives operate together and at least one is a dedicated parity disk. In simple terms, when data is written on the other drives, it's cloned on the parity one adding an extra bit. This is carried out for redundancy as even in case some drive fails or falls out of the RAID for some reason, the data can be rebuilt and verified thanks to the parity disk and the data stored on the other ones, therefore not a single thing will be lost and there will not be any service interruptions. This is an additional level of protection for your data along with the cutting-edge ZFS file system that uses checksums to guarantee that all data on our servers is undamaged and is not silently corrupted.
RAID in Semi-dedicated Servers
If you host your websites within a semi-dedicated server account from our company, any content you upload will be saved on NVMe drives which operate in RAID-Z. With this kind of RAID, at least 1 of the hard disks is employed for parity - when data is synchronized between the disks, an extra bit is added to it on the parity one. The idea behind this is to guarantee the integrity of the information which is duplicated to a brand new drive if one of the drives in the RAID stops functioning since the site content being copied on the brand new disk is recalculated from the info on the standard drives and on the parity one. An additional advantage of RAID-Z is the fact that even in the event that a disk drive stops functioning, the system can easily switch to a different one promptly without service disturbances of any kind. RAID-Z adds one more level of security for the content you upload on our cloud Internet hosting platform along with the ZFS file system that uses unique checksums as a way to validate the integrity of every single file.
RAID in VPS Servers
All VPS server accounts which we provide are made on physical servers that take advantage of NVMe drives functioning in RAID. At least one drive is used for parity - one additional bit is included in the information copied on it and if a main disk breaks down, this bit makes it much simpler to recalculate the bits of the files on the damaged hard disk so that the accurate info is recovered on the new drive included in the RAID. In the mean time, your Internet sites will remain online as all the data will still load from at least one other hard disk. If you add routine backups to your VPS plan, a copy of your data will be kept on standard hard drives that also function in RAID because we want to make certain that any type of website content you add will be safe and sound at all times. Using multiple hard drives in RAID for all of the main and backup servers permits us to offer fast and reliable web hosting service.