The process of files being damaged as a consequence of some hardware or software failure is referred to as data corruption and this is among the main problems which web hosting companies face because the larger a hard disk drive is and the more information is filed on it, the more likely it is for data to get corrupted. You will find several fail-safes, still often the data becomes damaged silently, so neither the file system, nor the administrators detect anything. Because of this, a corrupted file will be treated as a regular one and if the hard disk is a part of a RAID, that particular file will be duplicated on all other drives. In theory, this is done for redundancy, but in practice the damage will get worse. When a file gets damaged, it will be partially or completely unreadable, therefore a text file will no longer be readable, an image file will present a random blend 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 widely used server file systems have various checks, they often fail to discover a problem early enough or require an extensive period 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 Cloud Website Hosting

We guarantee the integrity of the info uploaded in every single cloud website hosting account which is created on our cloud platform since we work with the advanced ZFS file system. The latter is the only one that was designed to avert silent data corruption via a unique checksum for each and every file. We will store your information on multiple NVMe drives that function in a RAID, so the same files will be present on several places at the same time. ZFS checks the digital fingerprint of all of the files on all the drives in real time and if the checksum of any file is different from what it needs to be, the file system swaps that file with a healthy version from another drive from the RAID. There's no other file system which uses checksums, so it's possible for data to become silently corrupted and the bad file to be reproduced on all drives with time, but since this can never happen on a server using ZFS, you will not have to concern yourself with the integrity of your data.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Semi-dedicated Servers

You won't have to deal with any kind of silent data corruption issues in case you purchase one of our semi-dedicated server plans due to the fact that the ZFS file system that we employ on our cloud hosting platform uses checksums in order to make sure that all of the files are intact at all times. A checksum is a unique digital fingerprint that is given to each and every file kept on a server. Because we store all content on multiple drives at the same time, the same file has the same checksum on all the drives and what ZFS does is that it compares the checksums between the different drives right away. When 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 right away, avoiding any probability of the bad copy to be synchronized on the remaining hard drives. ZFS is the only file system you will find which uses checksums, which makes it much more reliable than other file systems that cannot identify silent data corruption and copy bad files across drives.