The process of files getting damaged because of some hardware or software failure is known as data corruption and this is one of the main problems that Internet hosting companies face because the larger a hard disk drive is and the more data is placed on it, the more likely it is for data to become corrupted. There're various fail-safes, still often the information gets corrupted silently, so neither the particular file system, nor the administrators notice a thing. Because of this, a bad file will be treated as a regular 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 practice the damage will get worse. The moment a given file gets corrupted, it will be partially or fully unreadable, so 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 shall be impossible to unpack, and you risk sacrificing your website content. Although the most widespread server file systems feature various checks, they often fail to discover a problem early enough or require a vast time period to be able to check all the files and the server will not be functional for the time being.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Shared Web Hosting

We warrant the integrity of the data uploaded in each shared web hosting account that is created on our cloud platform because we employ the advanced ZFS file system. The latter is the only one which was designed to prevent silent data corruption using a unique checksum for each file. We'll store your info on multiple NVMe drives which function in a RAID, so the very same files will be accessible on several places concurrently. ZFS checks the digital fingerprint of all the files on all of the drives in real time and in case the checksum of any file is different from what it needs to be, the file system swaps that file with an undamaged copy from some other drive from the RAID. No other file system uses checksums, so it is easy for data to become silently damaged and the bad file to be reproduced on all drives over time, but since this can never happen on a server running ZFS, you don't have to worry about the integrity of your info.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Semi-dedicated Hosting

You won't encounter any kind of silent data corruption issues in case you purchase 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 files are intact all of the time. A checksum is a unique digital fingerprint which is allotted to each and every file kept on a server. Since we store all content on multiple drives at the same time, the same file uses the same checksum on all 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 has to be, it replaces that file with a healthy copy right away, avoiding any possibility of the corrupted copy to be synchronized on the other hard disks. ZFS is the only file system you can get that uses checksums, which makes it much more dependable than other file systems that are not able to identify silent data corruption and duplicate bad files across drives.