The process of files getting corrupted due to some hardware or software failure is referred to as data corruption and this is one of the main problems which Internet hosting companies face as the larger a hard drive is and the more info is stored on it, the more likely it is for data to become corrupted. There are different fail-safes, but often the info becomes damaged silently, so neither the file system, nor the admins see anything. Consequently, a damaged file will be treated as a regular one and if the hard disk drive is a part of a RAID, the file will be duplicated on all other drives. In principle, this is for redundancy, but in reality the damage will get even worse. Once a file gets corrupted, it will be partially or completely unreadable, so a text file will no longer be readable, an image file will present a random blend of colors in case it opens at all and an archive will be impossible to unpack, so you risk losing your website content. Although the most widely used server file systems have various checks, they quite often fail to find some problem early enough or require a vast period of time to be able to check all the files and the web server will not be functional for the time being.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Cloud Hosting

If you host your sites in a cloud hosting account with our company, you will not have to worry about any of your data ever getting corrupted. We can guarantee that because our cloud hosting platform uses the leading-edge ZFS file system. The aforementioned is the only file system which works with checksums, or unique digital fingerprints, for each file. Any data that you upload will be stored in a RAID i.e. simultaneously on a number of NVMes. A lot of file systems synchronize the files between the separate drives using such a setup, but there's no real guarantee that a file won't get corrupted. This could happen throughout the writing process on each drive and after that a bad copy may be copied on the rest of the drives. What is different on our platform is the fact that ZFS analyzes the checksums of all files on all of the drives immediately and if a corrupted file is identified, it's swapped with a good copy with the correct checksum from some other drive. In this way, your information will continue to be unharmed no matter what, even if a whole 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 effective ZFS file system. What makes the aforementioned unique is that it uses checksums, or digital identifiers, in order to verify the integrity of every single file. When you upload content to your account, it will be placed on several redundant drives in a RAID i.e. the files will be the same across all disk drives. All copies of a given file will feature the same checksum on all drives and ZFS will compare the checksums of the duplicates right away, so if it detects a mismatch, which will indicate that one of the copies is corrupted, it will swap that file with a good copy from one of the other disks. Even if there's a sudden blackout, the data on the servers won't be corrupted and there won't be any need for a time-consuming system check that other file systems perform following some breakdown, extending the time needed for the server to return online. ZFS is the only file system that can really protect your content from silent data corruption.