The process of files being damaged caused by some hardware or software failure is referred to as data corruption and this is one of the main problems which hosting companies face because the larger a hard disk is and the more information is placed on it, the more likely it is for data to get corrupted. There're various fail-safes, yet often the information is damaged silently, so neither the file system, nor the admins detect a thing. As a result, a corrupted file will be treated as a good one and if the hard drive is a part of a RAID, that file will be duplicated on all other drives. In theory, this is done for redundancy, but in reality the damage will get even worse. Once some file gets corrupted, it will be partially or fully unreadable, which means that a text file will not be readable, an image file will present a random combination of colors in case it opens at all and an archive shall be impossible to unpack, so you risk sacrificing your website content. Although the most widely used server file systems have various checks, they 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 functional for the time being.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Shared Web Hosting

In case you host your sites in a shared web hosting account from our company, you don't have to worry about your data ever getting damaged. We can ensure that since our cloud hosting platform works with the reliable ZFS file system. The aforementioned is the only file system that uses checksums, or unique digital fingerprints, for each file. Any kind of information that you upload will be stored 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 with this kind of a setup, but there's no real warranty that a file will not get corrupted. This could happen during the writing process on any drive and then a bad copy can be copied on the rest of the drives. What makes the difference on our platform is the fact that ZFS compares the checksums of all files on all of the drives immediately and when a corrupted file is identified, it is swapped with a good copy with the correct checksum from another drive. By doing this, your info will remain undamaged no matter what, even if an entire drive fails.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Semi-dedicated Servers

Your semi-dedicated server account will be protected against silent data corruption since all our storage servers make use of the state-of-the-art ZFS file system. What makes the aforementioned unique is that it uses checksums, or digital identifiers, so as to verify the integrity of every single file. When you upload content to your account, it will be placed on a couple of redundant drives operating in a RAID i.e. the files will be the same on all disks. All copies of a particular file will have the same checksum on all drives and ZFS will compare the checksums of the copies right away, and if it identifies a mismatch, that will indicate that one of the copies is corrupted, it'll replace that file with a healthy copy from one of the other drives. Even if there's a sudden power loss, the data on the servers won't be corrupted and there will not be any need for a time-consuming system check which other file systems perform after some failure, lengthening the time needed for the server to get back online. ZFS is the sole file system that can truly protect your content from silent data corruption.