The process of files getting corrupted as a result 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 drive is and the more information is filed on it, the more likely it is for data to get corrupted. There are several fail-safes, but often the info is corrupted silently, so neither the file system, nor the administrators see a thing. Consequently, a damaged file will be treated as a good one and if the hard disk is a part of a RAID, the file will be copied on all other drives. In theory, this is for redundancy, but in reality the damage will be worse. When a file gets corrupted, it will be partly or completely unreadable, therefore a text file will no longer be readable, an image file will show a random mix of colors if it opens at all and an archive will be impossible to unpack, so you risk losing your site content. Although the most commonly used server file systems include various checks, they often fail to identify a problem early enough or require a long amount of time to check all the files and the hosting 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 every single hosting account that is created 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 via a unique checksum for every single file. We will store your info on a large number of NVMe drives that function in a RAID, so the very same files will be present on several places simultaneously. ZFS checks the digital fingerprint of all files on all drives in real time and in case the checksum of any file differs from what it needs to be, the file system replaces that file with an undamaged version from another drive inside the RAID. No other file system uses checksums, so it's possible for data to become silently corrupted and the bad file to be reproduced on all drives over time, but since this can never happen on a server using ZFS, you do not have to worry about 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 purchase one of our semi-dedicated hosting packages as the ZFS file system that we employ on our cloud hosting platform uses checksums to guarantee that all the files are undamaged at all times. A checksum is a unique digital fingerprint that is allotted to each and every file saved on a server. As we store all content on a number of drives at the same time, 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. In case 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 probability of the bad copy to be synchronized on the remaining hard disks. ZFS is the only file system on the market which uses checksums, which makes it much more reliable than other file systems that are not able to identify silent data corruption and duplicate bad files across hard drives.