The process of files getting corrupted because of some hardware or software failure is referred to as data corruption and this is among the main problems that hosting companies face because the larger a hard drive is and the more information is filed on it, the much more likely it is for data to become corrupted. You will find several fail-safes, but often the data is damaged silently, so neither the file system, nor the administrators notice a thing. Consequently, a corrupted file will be handled as a standard one and if the hard drive is a part of a RAID, the file will be copied on all other drives. Theoretically, this is done for redundancy, but in practice the damage will get worse. The moment a given file gets corrupted, it will be partly or fully unreadable, therefore 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, and you risk losing your content. Although the most commonly used server file systems have various checks, they frequently fail to find some problem early enough or require an extensive amount of time in order to check all of the files and the web hosting server will not be functional in the meantime.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Shared Hosting

We warrant the integrity of the data uploaded in any shared hosting account which is created on our cloud platform as we use the advanced ZFS file system. The aforementioned is the only one that was designed to avert silent data corruption thanks to a unique checksum for each and every file. We'll store your information on multiple NVMe drives that function in a RAID, so the exact same files will be available on several places simultaneously. ZFS checks the digital fingerprint of all files on all of the drives in real time and if the checksum of any file differs from what it needs to be, the file system replaces that file with a healthy copy from some other drive in the RAID. There's no other file system that uses checksums, so it's easy for data to get silently corrupted and the bad file to be replicated on all drives over time, but since that can never happen on a server running ZFS, you will not have to worry about the integrity of your information.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Semi-dedicated Servers

Your semi-dedicated server account will be shielded from silent data corruption as all of our storage servers use the advanced ZFS file system. What makes the aforementioned unique is that it uses checksums, or digital identifiers, so as to verify the integrity of each and every file. When you upload content to your account, it will be saved on a couple of redundant drives working in a RAID i.e. the files will be the same across all disks. All the copies of a given file will have the same checksum on all drives and ZFS will compare the checksums of the copies in real time, so if it identifies a mismatch, that would 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 power failure, the data on the servers will not get corrupted and there won't be any need for a time-consuming system check which other file systems perform after some breakdown, extending the time needed for the server to return online. ZFS is the only file system that can truly protect your content from silent data corruption.