The process of files getting damaged as a result of some hardware or software failure is called data corruption and this is among the main problems that web hosting companies face as the larger a hard disk is and the more data is stored on it, the much more likely it is for data to get corrupted. You'll find different fail-safes, still often the info becomes damaged silently, so neither the file system, nor the admins see a thing. Because of this, a bad file will be treated as a good one and if the hard disk is part of a RAID, the file will be duplicated on all other disk drives. Theoretically, this is done for redundancy, but in practice the damage will be even worse. Once some file gets damaged, it will be partly or fully unreadable, which means that a text file will no longer be readable, an image file will present a random mix of colors if it opens at all and an archive will be impossible to unpack, and you risk sacrificing your site content. Although the most frequently used server file systems have various checks, they quite often fail to identify a problem early enough or require an extensive period of time to be able to check all files and the server will not be functional in the meantime.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Hosting

We warrant the integrity of the data uploaded in every single hosting account that is generated on our cloud platform since we use the advanced ZFS file system. The latter is the only one which was designed to prevent silent data corruption via a unique checksum for every single file. We will store your info on a large number of NVMe drives which operate in a RAID, so identical files will be accessible on several places at the same time. ZFS checks the digital fingerprint of all files on all drives in real time and if the checksum of any file differs from what it needs to be, the file system swaps that file with an undamaged copy from a different drive inside the RAID. No other file system uses checksums, so it is easy for data to get silently corrupted and the bad file to be replicated on all drives with time, but since this can never happen on a server running ZFS, you will not have to concern yourself with the integrity of your information.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Semi-dedicated Hosting

You won't have to deal with any silent data corruption issues in case you get one of our semi-dedicated hosting packages because the ZFS file system that we work with on our cloud hosting platform uses checksums to make sure that all the files are undamaged at all times. A checksum is a unique digital fingerprint that is assigned to each and every file kept on a server. Because we store all content on multiple drives simultaneously, the same file uses the same checksum on all drives and what ZFS does is that it compares the checksums between the different drives right away. In the event that it detects that a file is corrupted and its checksum is different from what it has to be, it replaces that file with a healthy copy right away, avoiding any chance of the bad copy to be synchronized on the rest of the drives. ZFS is the sole file system out there that uses checksums, which makes it much more reliable than other file systems that are not able to detect silent data corruption and copy bad files across drives.