The process of files getting corrupted because of some hardware or software failure is referred to as data corruption and this is one of the main problems which web hosting companies face since the larger a hard disk is and the more info is stored on it, the more likely it is for data to get corrupted. You can find different fail-safes, still often the data becomes damaged silently, so neither the file system, nor the admins see a thing. Because of this, a damaged file will be handled as a good one and if the hard disk drive is part of a RAID, that file will be duplicated on all other disk drives. In principle, this is for redundancy, but in reality the damage will get worse. When a given file gets damaged, it will be partially or entirely unreadable, which means that a text file will no longer be readable, an image file will display a random combination of colors if it opens at all and an archive will be impossible to unpack, and you risk sacrificing your website content. Although the most frequently used server file systems include various checks, they quite often fail to identify a problem early enough or require an extensive time period in order to check all files and the server will not be functional in the meantime.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Shared Website Hosting

We warrant the integrity of the info uploaded in each shared website hosting account which is made on our cloud platform because we employ the advanced ZFS file system. The aforementioned is the only one which was designed to prevent silent data corruption thanks to a unique checksum for each file. We shall store your data on a number of NVMe drives which operate in a RAID, so the exact same files will be available on several places concurrently. ZFS checks the digital fingerprint of all files on all of the drives in real time and in case the checksum of any file differs from what it should be, the file system replaces that file with a healthy copy from a different drive from the RAID. There's no other file system which uses checksums, so it's easy for data to become silently damaged and the bad file to be replicated on all drives over time, but since this can never happen on a server using ZFS, you won't have to worry about the integrity of your info.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Semi-dedicated Hosting

You will not experience any silent data corruption issues whatsoever should you purchase one of our semi-dedicated hosting solutions due to the fact that the ZFS file system that we work with on our cloud hosting platform uses checksums in order to guarantee that all of the files are intact all the time. A checksum is a unique digital fingerprint which is allotted to each and every file kept on a server. Since 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 in real time. If 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 possibility of the corrupted copy to be synchronized on the rest of the drives. ZFS is the sole file system on the market which uses checksums, which makes it far superior to other file systems that cannot detect silent data corruption and duplicate bad files across hard drives.