The process of files getting damaged because of some hardware or software failure is referred to as data corruption and this is one of the main problems which web hosting companies face because the larger a hard disk drive is and the more data is kept on it, the much more likely it is for data to be corrupted. You'll find a couple of fail-safes, still often the info gets corrupted silently, so neither the file system, nor the admins notice a thing. Because of this, a damaged file will be treated as a standard one and if the hard disk drive is a part of a RAID, that particular file will be duplicated on all other disk drives. In principle, this is done for redundancy, but in reality the damage will get worse. The moment a file gets damaged, it will be partly or fully unreadable, therefore a text file will no longer be readable, an image file will show a random blend of colors in case it opens at all and an archive shall be impossible to unpack, and you risk sacrificing your content. Although the most frequently used server file systems have various checks, they are likely to fail to identify a problem early enough or require a long period of time to check all of the files and the hosting server will not be functional for the time being.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Cloud Web Hosting

In case you host your Internet sites in a cloud web hosting account with our company, you will not have to worry about any of your data ever getting damaged. We can ensure that because our cloud hosting platform employs the outstanding ZFS file system. The aforementioned is the only file system which works with checksums, or unique digital fingerprints, for each and every file. All data that you upload will be kept in a RAID i.e. simultaneously on multiple NVMes. All the file systems synchronize the files between the different drives using this type of a setup, but there is no real warranty that a file will not get corrupted. This could happen at the time of the writing process on any drive and after that a damaged copy can be copied on all other drives. What makes the difference on our platform is that ZFS compares the checksums of all files on all drives in real time and if a corrupted file is discovered, it's swapped with a good copy with the correct checksum from some other drive. By doing this, your information will continue to be undamaged no matter what, even if an entire drive fails.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Semi-dedicated Hosting

You will not encounter any kind of silent data corruption issues if you purchase one of our semi-dedicated hosting solutions since the ZFS file system that we use on our cloud hosting platform uses checksums in order to ensure that all files are intact at all times. A checksum is a unique digital fingerprint that is given to each and every file stored on a server. As we store all content on a number of 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 in real time. 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 probability of the bad copy to be synchronized on the remaining hard drives. ZFS is the only file system you can get which uses checksums, which makes it far superior to other file systems which are not able to identify silent data corruption and duplicate bad files across hard drives.