The process of files getting corrupted owing to some hardware or software failure is known as data corruption and this is one of the main problems that web hosting companies face since the larger a hard disk is and the more data is stored on it, the more likely it is for data to become corrupted. You can find several fail-safes, still often the info gets corrupted silently, so neither the file system, nor the admins detect a thing. As a result, a bad file will be handled as a standard one and if the HDD is a part of a RAID, the file will be copied on all other disk drives. In principle, this is done for redundancy, but in practice the damage will get worse. The moment a given file gets corrupted, it will be partly or fully 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 will be impossible to unpack, so you risk losing your site content. Although the most well-known server file systems include various checks, they frequently fail to detect some problem early enough or require a long period of time to be able to check all files and the web server will not be operational in the meantime.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Cloud Web Hosting

We guarantee the integrity of the data uploaded in every cloud web hosting account that is made on our cloud platform since we employ the advanced ZFS file system. The latter is the only one that was designed to avoid silent data corruption via a unique checksum for each file. We'll store your data on multiple NVMe drives that work in a RAID, so the 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 in case the checksum of any file differs from what it should be, the file system swaps that file with a healthy version from some other drive from the RAID. There's no other file system that uses checksums, so it is possible for data to get silently corrupted 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 Hosting

You will not experience any silent data corruption issues whatsoever should you acquire one of our semi-dedicated hosting solutions due to the fact that the ZFS file system that we take advantage of on our cloud hosting platform uses checksums in order to guarantee that all of your files are undamaged all of the time. A checksum is a unique digital fingerprint which is assigned to each and every file stored on a server. Since we store all content on multiple 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. In case 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 right away, avoiding any probability of the damaged copy to be synchronized on the other hard disks. ZFS is the sole file system available on the market that uses checksums, which makes it much more dependable than other file systems which cannot detect silent data corruption and copy bad files across hard drives.