The process of files being corrupted caused by some hardware or software failure is known as data corruption and this is among the main problems which web hosting companies face since the larger a hard disk drive is and the more information is stored on it, the more likely it is for data to become corrupted. You will find various fail-safes, but often the data is corrupted silently, so neither the file system, nor the administrators notice anything. Consequently, a bad file will be handled as a regular one and if the hard drive is a part of a RAID, that file will be duplicated on all other drives. Theoretically, this is for redundancy, but in practice the damage will be even worse. Once a file gets damaged, it will be partially or completely 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 shall be impossible to unpack, and you risk losing your website content. Although the most commonly used server file systems include various checks, they frequently fail to discover some problem early enough or require a vast amount of time to check all files and the web hosting server will not be operational for the time being.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Shared Website Hosting

We warrant the integrity of the information uploaded in every single shared website hosting account that is created on our cloud platform due to the fact that we use the advanced ZFS file system. The latter is the only one which was designed to avert silent data corruption through a unique checksum for each file. We will store your information on multiple NVMe drives that work in a RAID, so the exact same files will be present on several places simultaneously. ZFS checks the digital fingerprint of all files on all of the drives in real time and in the event that the checksum of any file differs from what it has to be, the file system swaps that file with an undamaged copy from a different drive within the RAID. No other file system uses checksums, so it's possible for data to get silently damaged and the bad file to be replicated on all drives over time, but since that can never happen on a server using ZFS, you will not have to concern yourself with the integrity of your information.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Your semi-dedicated hosting account will be resistant to silent data corruption because all of our storage servers make use of the state-of-the-art ZFS file system. What makes the latter unique is that it employs checksums, or digital identifiers, so as to ensure the integrity of each file. When you upload content to your account, it'll be kept on a couple of redundant drives operating in a RAID i.e. the files shall be the same on all drives. All copies of a given file will feature the same checksum on all hard disks and ZFS will compare the checksums of the copies right away, so if it registers a mismatch, which would indicate that one of the copies is corrupted, it will substitute that file with a good copy from one of the other drives. Even if there's an unforeseen power failure, the data on the servers will not get corrupted and there will not be any need for a time-consuming system check which other file systems perform after some failure, extending the time needed for the server to return online. ZFS is the file system that can really protect your content from silent data corruption.