The process of files getting corrupted caused by some hardware or software failure is known as data corruption and this is among the main problems which Internet hosting companies face since the larger a hard disk is and the more information is placed on it, the more likely it is for data to be corrupted. There are different fail-safes, yet often the information gets corrupted silently, so neither the file system, nor the admins see anything. Thus, a corrupted file will be handled as a good one and if the hard disk drive is a part of a RAID, the file will be copied on all other disk drives. Theoretically, this is done for redundancy, but in practice the damage will get worse. The moment some file gets corrupted, it will be partly or completely unreadable, so a text file will not be readable, an image file will present a random mix 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 frequently fail to discover some problem early enough or require a vast amount of time in order to check all the files and the server will not be operational in the meantime.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Website Hosting

In case you host your websites in a website hosting account from our company, you will not have to worry about your data ever getting damaged. We can ensure that as our cloud hosting platform employs the leading-edge ZFS file system. The aforementioned is the only file system which uses checksums, or unique digital fingerprints, for each file. Any kind of info that you upload will be stored in a RAID i.e. simultaneously on a number of NVMe drives. All the file systems synchronize the files between the different drives with this kind of a setup, but there is no real warranty that a file will not be corrupted. This can happen throughout the writing process on each drive and then a corrupted copy can be copied on all other drives. What makes the difference on our platform is that ZFS compares the checksums of all files on all the drives live and in case a corrupted file is identified, it is substituted with a good copy with the correct checksum from another drive. By doing this, your data will stay intact no matter what, even if an entire drive fails.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Semi-dedicated Hosting

You will not experience any kind of silent data corruption issues in case you buy one of our semi-dedicated hosting packages as the ZFS file system that we use on our cloud hosting platform uses checksums to ensure that all files are intact all of the time. A checksum is a unique digital fingerprint that is assigned to each and every file saved on a server. Because 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 right away. In case 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 without delay, avoiding any chance of the damaged copy to be synchronized on the other drives. ZFS is the only file system available on the market that uses checksums, which makes it far superior to other file systems which cannot identify silent data corruption and copy bad files across hard drives.