The process of files getting damaged as a result of some hardware or software failure is known as data corruption and this is among the main problems that Internet hosting companies face as the larger a hard disk is and the more information is filed on it, the more likely it is for data to be corrupted. You'll find various fail-safes, yet often the information is corrupted silently, so neither the particular file system, nor the administrators see a thing. Because of this, a damaged file will be handled as a standard one and if the hard disk is part of a RAID, the file will be duplicated on all other disk drives. In principle, this is for redundancy, but in reality the damage will get worse. When a given 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 display a random mix of colors in case it opens at all and an archive will be impossible to unpack, so you risk sacrificing your website content. Although the most well-known server file systems feature various checks, they frequently fail to discover 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 functional in the meantime.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Cloud Hosting

If you host your Internet sites in a cloud hosting account from our firm, you do not have to worry about any of your data ever getting corrupted. We can ensure that because our cloud hosting platform works with the revolutionary ZFS file system. The aforementioned is the only file system that works with checksums, or unique digital fingerprints, for each file. Any information that you upload will be saved in a RAID i.e. simultaneously on multiple NVMe drives. Many file systems synchronize the files between the different drives using this kind of a setup, but there's no real warranty that a file won't be corrupted. This may happen throughout the writing process on each drive and after that a bad copy can be copied on all other drives. What makes the difference on our platform is that ZFS analyzes the checksums of all files on all of the drives instantly and in case a corrupted file is found, it is substituted with a good copy with the correct checksum from some other drive. This way, your information will remain intact no matter what, even if an entire drive fails.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Semi-dedicated Hosting

You won't need to deal with any silent data corruption issues whatsoever in case you purchase one of our semi-dedicated hosting solutions due to the fact that the ZFS file system that we work with on our cloud hosting platform uses checksums in order to make sure that all files are intact all of the time. A checksum is a unique digital fingerprint which is given to each and every file saved on a server. As we store all content on multiple 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 in real time. 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 chance of the damaged copy to be synchronized on the rest of the hard disks. ZFS is the sole file system on the market that uses checksums, which makes it far superior to other file systems which are not able to identify silent data corruption and copy bad files across hard drives.