The process of files getting damaged resulting from some hardware or software failure is referred to as data corruption and this is one of the main problems that web hosting companies face as the larger a hard disk is and the more information is kept on it, the more likely it is for data to get corrupted. You will find several fail-safes, but often the information becomes damaged silently, so neither the particular file system, nor the administrators detect anything. Consequently, a bad file will be treated as a regular one and if the hard drive is a part of a RAID, that particular file will be duplicated on all other drives. In principle, this is for redundancy, but in practice the damage will get even worse. When a file gets corrupted, it will be partially or fully unreadable, therefore a text file will not 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, and you risk losing your site content. Although the most commonly used server file systems have various checks, they are likely to fail to discover a problem early enough or require a long time period to be able to check all the files and the hosting server will not be operational in the meantime.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Shared Hosting

If you host your Internet sites in a shared hosting account with our firm, you don't need to worry about your data ever getting damaged. We can ensure that because our cloud hosting platform works with the amazing ZFS file system. The latter is the only file system which works with checksums, or unique digital fingerprints, for every single file. Any info 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 is no real warranty that a file won't be corrupted. This can happen throughout the writing process on any drive and afterwards a corrupted copy can be copied on all other drives. What makes the difference on our platform is the fact that ZFS compares the checksums of all files on all of the drives in real time and when a corrupted file is identified, it's replaced with a good copy with the correct checksum from some other drive. That way, your information will continue to be intact no matter what, even if a whole drive fails.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Your semi-dedicated hosting account will be shielded from silent data corruption as all our storage servers use the reliable ZFS file system. What makes the latter unique is that it employs checksums, or digital identifiers, in order to guarantee the integrity of each and every file. When you upload content to your account, it will be placed on a couple of redundant drives working in a RAID i.e. the files shall be the same on all disks. All copies of a given file will have the same checksum on all hard disks and ZFS will compare the checksums of the duplicates quickly, so if it registers a mismatch, that will indicate that one of the copies is damaged, it'll replace that file with a good copy from one of the other disks. Even if there's an unexpected blackout, the data on the servers won't be corrupted and there won't be any need for a time-consuming system check which other file systems perform following some malfunction, prolonging the time needed for the server to return online. ZFS is the file system which can truly protect your content from silent data corruption.