The process of files being damaged due to some hardware or software failure is referred to as data corruption and this is one of the main problems which Internet hosting companies face since the larger a hard disk drive is and the more info is placed on it, the much more likely it is for data to be corrupted. There are several fail-safes, but often the info becomes damaged silently, so neither the file system, nor the administrators see anything. Consequently, a damaged file will be handled as a standard one and if the HDD is part of a RAID, that file will be copied on all other disk drives. In theory, this is for redundancy, but in reality the damage will get worse. The moment a file gets damaged, it will be partly or entirely unreadable, which means that a text file will not be readable, an image file will display a random mix of colors if it opens at all and an archive will be impossible to unpack, so you risk sacrificing your content. Although the most widely used server file systems include various checks, they frequently fail to find some problem early enough or require an extensive time period in order to check all of the files and the server will not be functional for the time being.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Website Hosting

We warrant the integrity of the information uploaded in each and every website hosting account that is created on our cloud platform as we employ the advanced ZFS file system. The latter is the only one which was designed to prevent silent data corruption through a unique checksum for each file. We will store your data on a number of NVMe drives which work in a RAID, so the very same files will be present on several places at the same time. ZFS checks the digital fingerprint of all files on all drives in real time and if the checksum of any file is different from what it has to be, the file system swaps that file with an undamaged copy from some other drive inside the RAID. There's no other file system that uses checksums, so it is easy for data to become silently corrupted and the bad file to be duplicated 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 information.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Semi-dedicated Servers

You won't encounter any silent data corruption issues should you purchase one of our semi-dedicated server plans as the ZFS file system that we work with on our cloud hosting platform uses checksums in order to guarantee that all the files are undamaged at all times. A checksum is a unique digital fingerprint that is assigned to each and every file saved on a server. Since we store all content on multiple drives simultaneously, the same file has 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 chance of the damaged copy to be synchronized on the remaining hard disks. ZFS is the sole file system you will find which 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.