The process of files getting corrupted because of some hardware or software failure is referred to as data corruption and this is one of the main problems that web hosting companies face since the larger a hard drive is and the more info is stored on it, the much more likely it is for data to be corrupted. There are several fail-safes, but often the data gets damaged silently, so neither the file system, nor the administrators see anything. Thus, a bad file will be handled as a regular one and if the hard disk drive is part of a RAID, that particular file will be copied on all other drives. In theory, this is done for redundancy, but in practice the damage will get even worse. When a given file gets damaged, it will be partially or entirely unreadable, which means that a text file will not be readable, an image file will display a random blend of colors in case it opens at all and an archive will be impossible to unpack, and you risk sacrificing your website content. Although the most commonly used server file systems include various checks, they are likely to fail to detect a 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 Shared Hosting

If you host your Internet sites in a shared hosting account from our firm, you don't have to worry about any of your data ever getting damaged. We can guarantee that due to the fact that our cloud hosting platform uses the revolutionary ZFS file system. The aforementioned is the only file system that uses checksums, or unique digital fingerprints, for each and every file. Any information that you upload will be stored in a RAID i.e. simultaneously on numerous NVMe drives. Many file systems synchronize the files between the separate drives using such a setup, but there's no real guarantee that a file will not be corrupted. This can occur during the writing process on each drive and then a bad copy can be copied on the other drives. What makes the difference on our platform is that ZFS analyzes the checksums of all files on all drives right away and in case a corrupted file is discovered, it is substituted with a good copy with the correct checksum from another drive. That way, your info will remain unharmed no matter what, even if a whole drive fails.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Semi-dedicated Servers

You won't experience any kind of silent data corruption issues whatsoever if you acquire one of our semi-dedicated server 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 ensure that all of the files are undamaged all of the time. A checksum is a unique digital fingerprint which is given to each and every file stored on a server. Because we store all content on a number of 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. 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 without delay, avoiding any chance of the corrupted copy to be synchronized on the rest of the hard disks. ZFS is the sole file system available on the market that uses checksums, which makes it much more reliable than other file systems which are not able to detect silent data corruption and duplicate bad files across hard drives.