The process of files being corrupted as a result of some hardware or software failure is known as data corruption and this is one of the main problems that hosting companies face because the larger a hard disk drive is and the more info is kept on it, the much more likely it is for data to get corrupted. There are different fail-safes, but often the data gets corrupted silently, so neither the particular file system, nor the administrators see anything. Because of this, a bad 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. Theoretically, this is for redundancy, but in practice the damage will be worse. Once some file gets corrupted, it will be partly or entirely 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 well-known server file systems include various checks, they frequently fail to discover some problem early enough or require an extensive time period to be able to check all of the files and the web server will not be functional for the time being.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Website Hosting

In case you host your websites in a website hosting account with our company, you don't have to worry about any of your data ever getting damaged. We can guarantee that since our cloud hosting platform employs the cutting-edge ZFS file system. The latter is the only file system that uses checksums, or unique digital fingerprints, for every single file. Any kind of information that you upload will be kept in a RAID i.e. simultaneously on a large number of NVMe drives. A lot of file systems synchronize the files between the separate drives using this kind of a setup, but there's no real guarantee that a file won't get corrupted. This can occur during the writing process on any drive and afterwards a damaged copy may be copied on all other drives. What makes the difference on our platform is that ZFS examines the checksums of all files on all of the drives in real time and in case a corrupted file is found, it's swapped with a good copy with the correct checksum from some other drive. This way, your info will stay undamaged no matter what, even if an entire drive fails.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Semi-dedicated Servers

You will not experience any kind of silent data corruption issues whatsoever should you acquire one of our semi-dedicated server packages as the ZFS file system that we employ on our cloud hosting platform uses checksums in order to ensure that all files are undamaged all the time. A checksum is a unique digital fingerprint that is assigned to each and every file stored on a server. As we store all content on multiple drives at the same time, the same file uses the same checksum on all 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 without delay, avoiding any probability of the damaged copy to be synchronized on the remaining drives. ZFS is the only file system you can find that uses checksums, which makes it much more dependable than other file systems which cannot identify silent data corruption and copy bad files across hard drives.