The process of files getting corrupted as a consequence of some hardware or software failure is called data corruption and this is one of the main problems that web hosting companies face as the larger a hard disk drive is and the more information is filed on it, the more likely it is for data to get corrupted. You will find various fail-safes, but often the data is corrupted silently, so neither the particular file system, nor the admins detect anything. As a result, a corrupted file will be treated as a regular one and if the hard drive is part of a RAID, that file will be duplicated on all other drives. In principle, this is for redundancy, but in reality the damage will be worse. The moment a file gets damaged, it will be partly or entirely unreadable, so a text file will not be readable, an image file will display a random combination of colors in case it opens at all and an archive shall be impossible to unpack, and you risk losing your content. Although the most well-known server file systems feature various checks, they often fail to detect a problem early enough or require a long period of time to be able to check all files and the web hosting server will not be operational in the meantime.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Hosting

If you host your sites in a hosting account with our firm, you won't have to worry about any of your data ever getting corrupted. We can guarantee that since 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 file. All data that you upload will be kept in a RAID i.e. simultaneously on a large number of NVMe drives. All the file systems synchronize the files between the separate drives with such a setup, but there's no real guarantee that a file will not get corrupted. This could happen during the writing process on any drive and afterwards a bad copy can be copied on all other drives. What is different on our platform is that ZFS analyzes the checksums of all files on all of the drives immediately and in the event that a corrupted file is found, it is substituted with a good copy with the correct checksum from some other drive. By doing this, your data will stay undamaged no matter what, even if a whole drive fails.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Semi-dedicated Servers

You will not experience any silent data corruption issues in case you acquire one of our semi-dedicated server solutions since the ZFS file system that we take advantage of on our cloud hosting platform uses checksums in order to guarantee that all the files are intact all the time. A checksum is a unique digital fingerprint that is assigned to each and every file stored on a server. Because we store all content on multiple drives simultaneously, the same file has the same checksum on all of the 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 should be, it replaces that file with a healthy copy without delay, avoiding any possibility of the damaged copy to be synchronized on the rest of the hard disks. ZFS is the sole file system on the market that uses checksums, which makes it much more reliable than other file systems which are unable to identify silent data corruption and copy bad files across drives.