The process of files getting damaged as a consequence of some hardware or software failure is referred to as data corruption and this is among the main problems that Internet hosting companies face because the larger a hard disk is and the more information is stored on it, the more likely it is for data to become corrupted. You will find different fail-safes, still often the information gets damaged silently, so neither the particular file system, nor the administrators notice anything. Consequently, 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 drives. In theory, this is done for redundancy, but in reality the damage will get even worse. The moment a given file gets damaged, it will be partially or completely 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 shall be impossible to unpack, so you risk sacrificing your site content. Although the most widespread server file systems feature various checks, they frequently fail to detect a problem early enough or require an extensive amount of time to be able to check all files and the web server will not be functional for the time being.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Shared Hosting

If you host your sites in a shared hosting account from our firm, you won't need to worry about any of your data ever getting damaged. We can ensure that due to the fact that our cloud hosting platform works with the revolutionary ZFS file system. The aforementioned is the only file system that uses checksums, or unique digital fingerprints, for each file. All data that you upload will be kept in a RAID i.e. simultaneously on many NVMes. All of the file systems synchronize the files between the separate drives with this type of a setup, but there's no real warranty that a file will not get corrupted. This can occur at the time of the writing process on each drive and then a bad copy may be copied on the other drives. What is different on our platform is the fact that ZFS analyzes the checksums of all files on all drives right away and if a corrupted file is found, it is substituted with a good copy with the correct checksum from some other drive. That way, your data will remain undamaged no matter what, even if a whole drive fails.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Semi-dedicated Hosting

You won't encounter any kind of silent data corruption issues if you buy one of our semi-dedicated hosting packages as the ZFS file system that we take advantage of on our cloud hosting platform uses checksums to make sure that all of the files are undamaged all of the time. A checksum is a unique digital fingerprint that is allotted to each and every file kept on a server. Since we store all content on a number of drives simultaneously, the same file uses the same checksum on all of the drives and what ZFS does is that it compares the checksums between the different drives right away. 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 other drives. ZFS is the only file system you can get which uses checksums, which makes it far superior to other file systems which are unable to identify silent data corruption and duplicate bad files across drives.