The process of files getting damaged because of some hardware or software failure is called data corruption and this is among the main problems which hosting companies face because the larger a hard drive is and the more information is placed on it, the more likely it is for data to be corrupted. You can find a couple of fail-safes, yet often the information is damaged silently, so neither the file system, nor the administrators notice anything. Because of this, a corrupted 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 disk drives. In theory, this is done for redundancy, but in practice the damage will be even worse. When some file gets damaged, it will be partially or fully unreadable, which means that a text file will not be readable, an image file will present a random mix of colors in case it opens at all and an archive will be impossible to unpack, and you risk sacrificing your website content. Although the most widely used server file systems include various checks, they often fail to identify some problem early enough or require a vast period of time to check all the files and the server will not be functional in the meantime.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Shared Hosting

In case you host your Internet sites in a shared hosting account with our firm, you do not need to worry about any of your data ever getting damaged. We can ensure that due to the fact that our cloud hosting platform employs the outstanding ZFS file system. The latter is the only file system which works with checksums, or unique digital fingerprints, for each and every file. All the data that you upload will be stored in a RAID i.e. simultaneously on multiple NVMes. A lot of file systems synchronize the files between the separate drives using this kind of a setup, but there is no real warranty that a file will not be corrupted. This could happen throughout the writing process on each drive and afterwards a corrupted 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 drives in real time and in case a corrupted file is discovered, it's substituted with a good copy with the correct checksum from some other drive. That way, your info will stay undamaged no matter what, even if a whole drive fails.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Your semi-dedicated hosting account will be resistant to silent data corruption because all our storage servers employ the efficient ZFS file system. What makes the latter unique is that it employs checksums, or digital identifiers, to verify the integrity of each file. When you upload content to your account, it will be kept on several redundant drives in a RAID i.e. the files will be the same on all disk drives. All copies of a specific file will feature the same checksum on all hard disks and ZFS will compare the checksums of the copies in real time, and if it discovers a mismatch, which would indicate that one of the copies is corrupted, it'll substitute that file with a healthy copy from one of the other disks. Even if there's a sudden power loss, the data on the servers will not be 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 get back online. ZFS is the only file system which can truly protect your content from silent data corruption.