The process of files getting damaged resulting from some hardware or software failure is known as data corruption and this is among the main problems that Internet 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. You'll find several fail-safes, but often the information becomes damaged silently, so neither the file system, nor the administrators notice anything. Because of this, a corrupted file will be handled as a good one and if the HDD is a part of a RAID, that file will be copied on all other disk drives. In principle, this is for redundancy, but in practice the damage will be worse. Once some file gets damaged, it will be partially or entirely unreadable, so a text file will not be readable, an image file will show a random combination of colors in case it opens at all and an archive shall be impossible to unpack, so you risk sacrificing your site content. Although the most commonly used server file systems feature various checks, they often fail to discover some problem early enough or require a vast time period to be able to check all of the files and the server will not be functional for the time being.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Shared Web Hosting

We guarantee the integrity of the information uploaded in each shared web hosting account which is made on our cloud platform since we employ the advanced ZFS file system. The latter is the only one which was designed to prevent silent data corruption via a unique checksum for every single file. We'll store your data on a number of NVMe drives that work in a RAID, so the exact same files will be present on several places simultaneously. ZFS checks the digital fingerprint of all the files on all drives in real time and in case the checksum of any file differs from what it should be, the file system swaps that file with an undamaged version from some other drive within the RAID. No other file system uses checksums, so it's easy for data to be silently damaged and the bad file to be duplicated 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.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Semi-dedicated Hosting

You will not have to deal with any kind of silent data corruption issues whatsoever in case you purchase one of our semi-dedicated hosting packages as the ZFS file system that we use on our cloud hosting platform uses checksums in order to ensure that all of your files are intact at all times. A checksum is a unique digital fingerprint that is given to each and every file saved on a server. As we store all content on a number of drives simultaneously, the same file uses the same checksum on all the drives and what ZFS does is that it compares the checksums between the different drives in real time. In the event that 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 chance of the corrupted copy to be synchronized on the remaining hard disks. ZFS is the sole file system out there that uses checksums, which makes it much more reliable than other file systems that are unable to identify silent data corruption and duplicate bad files across drives.