The process of files being corrupted owing to some hardware or software failure is referred to as data corruption and this is one of the main problems that hosting companies face as the larger a hard disk is and the more information is placed on it, the more likely it is for data to be corrupted. You'll find a couple of fail-safes, still often the information is corrupted silently, so neither the file system, nor the administrators detect a thing. Thus, a bad file will be treated as a regular one and if the hard disk is a part of a RAID, that file will be duplicated on all other drives. Theoretically, this is for redundancy, but in reality the damage will be worse. When a given file gets damaged, it will be partially or completely unreadable, therefore a text file will no longer be readable, an image file will show a random blend of colors if it opens at all and an archive shall be impossible to unpack, so you risk losing your site content. Although the most well-known server file systems include various checks, they are likely to fail to detect a problem early enough or require a vast amount of time to be able to check all of the files and the server will not be operational in the meantime.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Shared Website Hosting

In case you host your Internet sites in a shared website hosting account from our firm, you do not need to worry about any of your data ever getting corrupted. We can guarantee that due to the fact that our cloud hosting platform works with the advanced ZFS file system. The aforementioned is the only file system which uses checksums, or unique digital fingerprints, for each and every file. All the information that you upload will be stored in a RAID i.e. simultaneously on many NVMes. All the file systems synchronize the files between the separate drives with this kind of a setup, but there is no real warranty that a file will not get corrupted. This could occur during the writing process on each drive and afterwards a corrupted copy may be copied on the other drives. What is different on our platform is the fact that ZFS analyzes the checksums of all files on all of the drives live and when a corrupted file is found, it's replaced with a good copy with the correct checksum from another drive. In this 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 Servers

Your semi-dedicated server account will be shielded from silent data corruption as all our storage servers employ the advanced ZFS file system. What makes the latter unique is that it uses checksums, or digital identifiers, to guarantee the integrity of every single file. When you upload content to your account, it will be saved on several redundant drives operating in a RAID i.e. the files will be the same on all drives. All the copies of a particular file will have the same checksum on all hard disks and ZFS will compare the checksums of the copies quickly, and if it discovers a mismatch, that would indicate that one of the copies is damaged, it will replace that file with a healthy copy from one of the other drives. Even if there is an unexpected power failure, the data on the servers won't be corrupted and there won't be any need for a time-consuming system check that other file systems perform following some breakdown, extending the time needed for the server to go back online. ZFS is the file system that can really protect your content from silent data corruption.