The process of files being damaged as a consequence of some hardware or software failure is referred to as data corruption and this is one of the main problems which Internet hosting companies face as the larger a hard disk drive is and the more info is placed on it, the more likely it is for data to be corrupted. There are various fail-safes, yet often the info is damaged silently, so neither the particular file system, nor the administrators detect anything. Because of this, a bad file will be treated as a regular one and if the hard drive is part of a RAID, that file will be duplicated on all other disk drives. In theory, this is done for redundancy, but in practice the damage will be even worse. Once some file gets damaged, it will be partly or fully unreadable, so a text file will no longer be readable, an image file will present 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 widespread server file systems have various checks, they quite often fail to discover a problem early enough or require an extensive time period to check all the files and the hosting server will not be operational in the meantime.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Hosting

We guarantee the integrity of the info uploaded in every single hosting account which is created on our cloud platform due to the fact that we employ the advanced ZFS file system. The aforementioned is the only one that was designed to avert silent data corruption through a unique checksum for every single file. We'll store your info on a large number of NVMe drives which operate in a RAID, so the very same files will be present on several places at once. ZFS checks the digital fingerprint of all of the files on all of the drives in real time and if the checksum of any file is different from what it has to be, the file system swaps that file with an undamaged copy from a different drive in the RAID. No other file system uses checksums, so it's easy for data to get silently damaged and the bad file to be reproduced on all drives with time, but since this can never happen on a server running ZFS, you won't have to concern yourself with the integrity of your info.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Semi-dedicated Servers

You will not encounter any kind of silent data corruption issues if you get one of our semi-dedicated server packages because the ZFS file system that we take advantage of on our cloud hosting platform uses checksums in order to ensure that all of your files are intact all the time. A checksum is a unique digital fingerprint that is allotted to each and every file stored on a server. Due to the fact that we store all content on a number of drives at the same time, the same file has the same checksum on all the drives and what ZFS does is that it compares the checksums between the different drives right away. When it detects that a file is corrupted and its checksum is different from what it has to be, it replaces that file with a healthy copy right away, avoiding any possibility of the damaged copy to be synchronized on the remaining hard drives. ZFS is the sole file system available on the market that uses checksums, which makes it much more dependable than other file systems that cannot identify silent data corruption and duplicate bad files across hard drives.