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 Internet hosting companies face as the larger a hard drive is and the more info is kept on it, the more likely it is for data to become corrupted. You can find different fail-safes, but often the data is damaged silently, so neither the particular file system, nor the admins notice a thing. Thus, a damaged file will be treated as a good one and if the hard drive is a part of a RAID, that file will be copied on all other disk drives. Theoretically, this is done for redundancy, but in practice the damage will get worse. Once a file gets damaged, it will be partially or completely unreadable, therefore a text file will not be readable, an image file will display a random blend of colors in case it opens at all and an archive will be impossible to unpack, and you risk sacrificing your content. Although the most commonly used server file systems include various checks, they frequently fail to identify some problem early enough or require an extensive time period to check all the files and the server will not be functional in the meantime.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Cloud Web Hosting

We guarantee the integrity of the info uploaded in each and every cloud web hosting account that is made on our cloud platform as we work with the advanced ZFS file system. The aforementioned is the only one which was designed to prevent silent data corruption using a unique checksum for each and every file. We shall store your information on a large number of SSD drives which work in a RAID, so the very same files will be present on several places simultaneously. 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 replaces that file with an undamaged version from another drive in the RAID. There's no other file system which uses checksums, so it is easy for data to be silently corrupted and the bad file to be replicated on all drives with time, but since this can never happen on a server using ZFS, you do not have to concern yourself with the integrity of your data.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you obtain one of our semi-dedicated server plans, you won't need to worry about silent data corruption as we use ZFS - an advanced file system which checks all files in real time. Every time you upload a file to your hosting account, ZFS will assign a unique digital fingerprint to it - the so-called checksum. That file will be synchronized between multiple SSD drives for redundancy, so if a drive fails, the other ones will take control. ZFS compares the checksum of all of the copies on the different drives and if it detects a corrupted copy, it replaces it with a healthy one from a different drive. This is done immediately, so there will be no danger for any part of your content at any moment. In contrast, other file systems carry out checks only after a system failure, but since they do not use anything similar to the checksums which ZFS uses, they can't detect silently corrupted files, so a bad copy could be replicated on the other drives as well and you could lose precious data. As this is not the case with ZFS, we're able to guarantee the integrity of each file you upload no matter what.