The process of files getting damaged due to some hardware or software failure is known as data corruption and this is among the main problems that Internet hosting companies face as the larger a hard disk drive is and the more information is kept on it, the more likely it is for data to be corrupted. You will find various fail-safes, but often the data gets corrupted silently, so neither the file system, nor the admins detect anything. As a result, a corrupted file will be handled as a good one and if the hard disk is a part of a RAID, the file will be duplicated on all other disk drives. Theoretically, this is for redundancy, but in reality the damage will be even worse. The moment some file gets corrupted, it will be partially or completely unreadable, which means that 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 sacrificing your site content. Although the most well-known server file systems include various checks, they quite often fail to detect a problem early enough or require a vast amount of time in order to check all files and the hosting server will not be operational for the time being.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Hosting

In case you host your Internet sites in a hosting account with our firm, you don't have to worry about your data ever getting corrupted. We can guarantee that as our cloud hosting platform uses the amazing ZFS file system. The aforementioned is the only file system which works with checksums, or unique digital fingerprints, for every single file. Any info that you upload will be kept in a RAID i.e. simultaneously on multiple NVMes. A lot of file systems synchronize the files between the different drives with such a setup, but there is no real guarantee that a file won't get corrupted. This could happen during the writing process on each drive and then a bad copy can be copied on all other drives. What makes the difference on our platform is the fact that ZFS analyzes the checksums of all files on all drives live and when a corrupted file is discovered, it is substituted with a good copy with the correct checksum from another drive. That way, your information will remain intact no matter what, even if a whole drive fails.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Semi-dedicated Servers

You will not encounter any silent data corruption issues if you buy one of our semi-dedicated server packages because the ZFS file system that we take advantage of on our cloud hosting platform uses checksums to guarantee that all of your files are undamaged all the time. A checksum is a unique digital fingerprint which is assigned to each and every file saved on a server. Because we store all content on multiple drives simultaneously, the same file has the same checksum on all drives and what ZFS does is that it compares the checksums between the different drives right away. If 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 possibility of the bad copy to be synchronized on the rest of the hard disks. ZFS is the sole file system you can get which uses checksums, which makes it much more reliable than other file systems which cannot detect silent data corruption and duplicate bad files across hard drives.