The process of files being corrupted as a consequence of some hardware or software failure is referred to as data corruption and this is among the main problems that Internet hosting companies face because the larger a hard disk is and the more information is filed on it, the much more likely it is for data to be corrupted. There are different fail-safes, still often the info is damaged silently, so neither the particular file system, nor the admins notice a thing. Consequently, a damaged file will be treated as a standard one and if the hard disk is part of a RAID, that file will be copied on all other disk drives. In theory, this is done for redundancy, but in practice the damage will get even worse. When a file gets corrupted, it will be partially or entirely unreadable, which means that a text file will no longer be readable, an image file will display a random combination of colors if it opens at all and an archive shall be impossible to unpack, so you risk losing your content. Although the most well-known server file systems include various checks, they frequently fail to detect some problem early enough or require an extensive period of time to be able to check all of the files and the web hosting server will not be functional for the time being.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Shared Hosting

We guarantee the integrity of the information uploaded in each shared hosting account which is made on our cloud platform because we employ the advanced ZFS file system. The aforementioned is the only one that was designed to avert silent data corruption using a unique checksum for every single file. We'll store your information on a number of NVMe drives that operate in a RAID, so exactly the same files will be available on several places simultaneously. ZFS checks the digital fingerprint of all the files on all drives in real time and in the event that the checksum of any file is different from what it needs to be, the file system replaces that file with a healthy copy from another drive in the RAID. There's no other file system that uses checksums, so it is easy for data to become silently damaged and the bad file to be duplicated on all drives with time, but since this can never happen on a server using ZFS, you will not have to worry about the integrity of your info.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Your semi-dedicated hosting account will be protected against silent data corruption because all our storage servers employ the innovative ZFS file system. What makes the latter unique is that it employs checksums, or digital identifiers, to verify the integrity of each file. When you upload content to your account, it'll be saved on several redundant drives in a RAID i.e. the files shall be the same on all disks. All of the copies of a given file will have the same checksum on all hard drives and ZFS will compare the checksums of the copies in real time, and if it detects a mismatch, which will indicate that one of the copies is corrupted, it'll substitute that file with a good copy from one of the other drives. Even if there is an unexpected power failure, the data on the servers will not get corrupted and there will not be any need for a time-consuming system check which other file systems perform after some malfunction, prolonging the time needed for the server to return online. ZFS is the file system which can really protect your content from silent data corruption.