The process of files being damaged because 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 filed on it, the more likely it is for data to be corrupted. There are various fail-safes, but often the information becomes damaged silently, so neither the particular file system, nor the admins notice a thing. As a result, a corrupted file will be treated as a regular one and if the hard drive is a part of a RAID, that file will be copied on all other disk drives. In principle, this is for redundancy, but in reality the damage will be even worse. Once a file gets damaged, it will be partly or completely unreadable, which means that a text file will not be readable, an image file will show a random mix of colors in case it opens at all and an archive will be impossible to unpack, and you risk losing your content. Although the most frequently used server file systems include various checks, they are likely to fail to find some problem early enough or require an extensive period of time to be able to check all files and the web hosting server will not be operational in the meantime.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Shared Hosting

If you host your Internet sites in a shared hosting account from our firm, you will not need to worry about any of your data ever getting damaged. We can ensure that since our cloud hosting platform works with the cutting-edge ZFS file system. The aforementioned is the only file system which uses checksums, or unique digital fingerprints, for each and every file. All the info that you upload will be saved in a RAID i.e. simultaneously on a number of NVMes. All the file systems synchronize the files between the different drives with this kind of a setup, but there's no real warranty that a file won't get corrupted. This may happen during the writing process on each drive and then a corrupted copy may be copied on all other drives. What is different on our platform is the fact that ZFS analyzes the checksums of all files on all the drives in real time and in the event that a corrupted file is located, it's swapped with a good copy with the correct checksum from some other drive. That way, your information will stay unharmed no matter what, even if an entire drive fails.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Your semi-dedicated hosting account will be resistant to silent data corruption as all our storage servers make use of the innovative ZFS file system. What makes the latter unique is that it uses checksums, or digital identifiers, so as to ensure the integrity of each and every file. When you upload content to your account, it will be stored on several redundant drives working in a RAID i.e. the files will be the same across all disk drives. All copies of a given file will feature the same checksum on all hard disks and ZFS will compare the checksums of the duplicates right away, and if it identifies a mismatch, that will indicate that one of the copies is corrupted, it'll substitute that file with a healthy copy from one of the other disks. Even if there's an unexpected blackout, the data on the servers will not get corrupted and there won't be any need for a time-consuming system check that other file systems perform after some failure, extending the time needed for the server to get back online. ZFS is the sole file system which can really protect your content from silent data corruption.