The process of files being corrupted owing to some hardware or software failure is known 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 info is placed on it, the more likely it is for data to become corrupted. There are several fail-safes, still often the information becomes corrupted silently, so neither the particular file system, nor the administrators see a thing. Because of this, a damaged file will be treated as a good one and if the hard disk is part of a RAID, the file will be copied on all other disk drives. In theory, this is done for redundancy, but in reality the damage will get even worse. Once a given file gets corrupted, it will be partially or completely unreadable, so a text file will not be readable, an image file will display a random mix of colors in case it opens at all and an archive shall be impossible to unpack, so you risk sacrificing your website content. Although the most widespread server file systems feature various checks, they frequently fail to identify a problem early enough or require a vast amount of time to check all of the files and the hosting server will not be operational for the time being.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Shared Website Hosting

In case you host your sites in a shared website hosting account from our company, you will not need to worry about any of your data ever getting damaged. We can guarantee that due to the fact that our cloud hosting platform uses the reliable ZFS file system. The aforementioned is the only file system which uses checksums, or unique digital fingerprints, for each file. Any kind of data that you upload will be kept in a RAID i.e. simultaneously on a number of NVMe drives. All file systems synchronize the files between the different drives using this kind of a setup, but there is no real warranty that a file will not get corrupted. This may happen during the writing process on each drive and after that a bad copy may be copied on the other drives. What makes the difference on our platform is that ZFS examines the checksums of all files on all of the drives live and if a corrupted file is identified, it is swapped with a good copy with the correct checksum from some other drive. By doing this, your data will continue to be intact no matter what, even if an entire drive fails.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Semi-dedicated Servers

You won't encounter any kind of silent data corruption issues whatsoever in case you obtain one of our semi-dedicated server packages due to the fact that the ZFS file system that we work with on our cloud hosting platform uses checksums in order to guarantee that all of the files are intact at all times. A checksum is a unique digital fingerprint which is assigned to each and every file kept on a server. Due to the fact that we store all content on a number of drives at the same time, the same file uses the same checksum on all of the drives and what ZFS does is that it compares the checksums between the different drives right away. When it detects that a file is corrupted and its checksum is different from what it should be, it replaces that file with a healthy copy without delay, avoiding any possibility of the bad copy to be synchronized on the rest of the hard drives. ZFS is the only file system on the market which uses checksums, which makes it much more reliable than other file systems which cannot detect silent data corruption and duplicate bad files across drives.