The process of files being damaged resulting from some hardware or software failure is known as data corruption and this is one of the main problems which hosting companies face because the larger a hard drive is and the more info is kept on it, the more likely it is for data to be corrupted. There're different fail-safes, still often the info gets damaged silently, so neither the particular file system, nor the admins notice a thing. Because of this, a bad file will be handled as a good one and if the hard disk drive is a part of a RAID, that particular file will be duplicated on all other disk drives. Theoretically, this is for redundancy, but in reality the damage will get even worse. When some file gets corrupted, it will be partly or completely unreadable, which means that a text file will no longer be readable, an image file will present a random mix of colors in case it opens at all and an archive will be impossible to unpack, so you risk losing your content. Although the most widely used server file systems feature various checks, they are likely to fail to discover a problem early enough or require a vast period of time in order to check all files and the web hosting server will not be functional for the time being.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Shared Website Hosting

We guarantee the integrity of the info uploaded in any shared website hosting account which is created on our cloud platform because we work with the advanced ZFS file system. The latter is the only one which was designed to avoid silent data corruption via a unique checksum for each file. We'll store your information on multiple NVMe drives which work in a RAID, so exactly the same files will be accessible on several places concurrently. ZFS checks the digital fingerprint of all the files on all 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 an undamaged copy from a different drive within 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 that can never happen on a server using ZFS, you will not have to worry about the integrity of your info.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Semi-dedicated Servers

You won't experience any kind of silent data corruption issues whatsoever in case you get one of our semi-dedicated server solutions because the ZFS file system that we take advantage of on our cloud hosting platform uses checksums in order to make sure that all of your files are undamaged at all times. A checksum is a unique digital fingerprint which is given to each and every file kept on a server. Due to the fact that we store all content on multiple 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 chance of the damaged copy to be synchronized on the rest of the drives. ZFS is the sole file system you can find that uses checksums, which makes it much more dependable than other file systems that are not able to identify silent data corruption and copy bad files across drives.