The process of files being corrupted resulting from some hardware or software failure is known as data corruption and this is one of the main problems that web hosting companies face as the larger a hard drive is and the more info is filed on it, the more likely it is for data to become corrupted. You will find a couple of fail-safes, yet often the data gets corrupted silently, so neither the file system, nor the admins detect a thing. Because of this, a bad file will be handled as a standard one and if the hard drive is a part of a RAID, that particular file will be copied on all other disk drives. In theory, this is for redundancy, but in reality the damage will get worse. The moment a given file gets corrupted, it will be partly or completely unreadable, which means that a text file will no longer be readable, an image file will present a random mix of colors in case it opens at all and an archive will be impossible to unpack, and you risk sacrificing your site content. Although the most frequently used server file systems feature various checks, they often fail to detect a problem early enough or require a long amount of time in order to check all the files and the web server will not be functional for the time being.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Hosting

We guarantee the integrity of the information uploaded in any hosting account which is generated on our cloud platform because we work with the advanced ZFS file system. The aforementioned is the only one which was designed to prevent silent data corruption through a unique checksum for every single file. We will store your data on a large number of NVMe drives which function in a RAID, so exactly the same files will be accessible on several places concurrently. ZFS checks the digital fingerprint of all of the files on all of the drives in real time and in case the checksum of any file differs from what it has to be, the file system replaces that file with a healthy copy from some other drive inside the RAID. No other file system uses checksums, so it is possible for data to be silently corrupted and the bad file to be duplicated on all drives over time, but since this 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

You will not have to deal with any kind of silent data corruption issues in case you get one of our semi-dedicated hosting packages since the ZFS file system that we employ on our cloud hosting platform uses checksums in order to ensure that all the files are undamaged at all times. A checksum is a unique digital fingerprint that is assigned to each and every file kept on a server. Since we store all content on a number of 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 in real time. In the event that 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 without delay, avoiding any chance of the corrupted copy to be synchronized on the other hard disks. ZFS is the only file system available on the market that uses checksums, which makes it much more dependable than other file systems which are not able to identify silent data corruption and duplicate bad files across hard drives.