The process of files being corrupted resulting from some hardware or software failure is known as data corruption and this is one of the main problems which Internet hosting companies face since the larger a hard disk is and the more data is kept on it, the more likely it is for data to become corrupted. You will find different fail-safes, yet often the information gets damaged silently, so neither the file system, nor the administrators detect anything. Consequently, a corrupted file will be treated as a regular one and if the HDD is part of a RAID, that particular file will be duplicated on all other drives. In theory, this is done for redundancy, but in reality the damage will be even worse. The moment some file gets corrupted, it will be partially or fully unreadable, which means that a text file will no longer be readable, an image file will display a random combination of colors if it opens at all and an archive shall be impossible to unpack, and you risk sacrificing your website content. Although the most well-known server file systems include various checks, they often fail to identify a problem early enough or require an extensive amount of time to be able to check all files and the server will not be functional for the time being.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Shared Hosting

We warrant the integrity of the information uploaded in each shared hosting account which is made on our cloud platform since we work with the advanced ZFS file system. The aforementioned is the only one that was designed to avert silent data corruption thanks to a unique checksum for each and every file. We will store your data on a large number of NVMe drives which operate in a RAID, so identical files will exist on several places at once. ZFS checks the digital fingerprint of all the files on all the drives in real time and in the event that the checksum of any file differs from what it has to be, the file system swaps that file with a healthy version from some other 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 duplicated on all drives over time, but since that can never happen on a server using ZFS, you don't have to worry about the integrity of your info.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Semi-dedicated Hosting

We have avoided any risk of files getting corrupted silently since the servers where your semi-dedicated hosting account will be created use a powerful file system known as ZFS. Its main advantage over alternative file systems is that it uses a unique checksum for each and every file - a digital fingerprint that's checked in real time. As we keep all content on numerous NVMe drives, ZFS checks if the fingerprint of a file on one drive corresponds to the one on the rest of the drives and the one it has saved. If there's a mismatch, the damaged copy is replaced with a good one from one of the other drives and considering that it happens right away, there is no chance that a corrupted copy can remain on our web servers or that it can be copied to the other hard disks in the RAID. None of the other file systems work with this kind of checks and in addition, even during a file system check right after a sudden power loss, none of them can discover silently corrupted files. In contrast, ZFS does not crash after a blackout and the constant checksum monitoring makes a lenghty file system check unneeded.