The process of files getting damaged due to some hardware or software failure is known as data corruption and this is one of the main problems that hosting companies face since the larger a hard drive is and the more information is placed on it, the much more likely it is for data to become corrupted. You can find several fail-safes, yet often the info becomes damaged silently, so neither the file system, nor the admins detect anything. As a result, a corrupted file will be handled as a regular one and if the hard disk drive is part of a RAID, that file will be copied on all other disk drives. Theoretically, this is for redundancy, but in reality the damage will get even worse. The moment a given file gets damaged, it will be partially or entirely 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 will be impossible to unpack, and you risk losing your website content. Although the most widespread server file systems feature various checks, they often fail to identify some problem early enough or require a long period of time to be able to check all the files and the server will not be operational in the meantime.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Cloud Hosting

We warrant the integrity of the data uploaded in any cloud hosting account that is generated on our cloud platform as we employ the advanced ZFS file system. The aforementioned is the only one which was designed to avert silent data corruption through a unique checksum for each and every file. We shall store your info on a large number of NVMe drives which function in a RAID, so identical files will be available on several places concurrently. ZFS checks the digital fingerprint of all of the files on all the drives in real time and if the checksum of any file is different from what it needs to be, the file system swaps that file with an undamaged copy from a different drive within the RAID. There's no other file system that uses checksums, so it's 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 running ZFS, you don't have to concern yourself with the integrity of your info.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Semi-dedicated Servers

Your semi-dedicated server account will be resistant to silent data corruption since all our storage servers work with the innovative ZFS file system. What makes the latter unique is that it employs checksums, or digital identifiers, in order to ensure the integrity of every single file. When you upload content to your account, it'll be saved on several redundant drives employed in a RAID i.e. the files will be the same across all disks. All the copies of a particular file will have the same checksum on all hard drives and ZFS will compare the checksums of the copies quickly, and if it detects a mismatch, that would indicate that one of the copies is corrupted, it will substitute that file with a healthy copy from one of the other disks. Even if there is an unexpected power loss, the data on the servers won't become corrupted and there will not be any need for a time-consuming system check that other file systems perform after some breakdown, prolonging the time needed for the server to go back online. ZFS is the sole file system which can truly protect your content from silent data corruption.