The process of files getting damaged because of some hardware or software failure is called data corruption and this is one of the main problems which hosting companies face since the larger a hard disk is and the more info is stored on it, the more likely it is for data to be corrupted. You will find a couple of fail-safes, yet often the information becomes damaged silently, so neither the particular file system, nor the admins detect a thing. Because of this, a corrupted file will be handled as a regular one and if the hard disk is part of a RAID, the file will be copied on all other drives. In theory, this is for redundancy, but in reality the damage will get worse. Once some file gets corrupted, it will be partly or entirely unreadable, therefore a text file will not be readable, an image file will present a random blend of colors if it opens at all and an archive will be impossible to unpack, and you risk sacrificing your website content. Although the most widespread server file systems feature various checks, they quite often fail to discover some problem early enough or require an extensive amount of time to be able to check all of the files and the web hosting server will not be functional for the time being.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Website Hosting

In case you host your websites in a website hosting account with our company, you will not need to worry about your data ever getting damaged. We can guarantee that since our cloud hosting platform uses the cutting-edge ZFS file system. The aforementioned is the only file system that works with checksums, or unique digital fingerprints, for each file. Any data that you upload will be stored in a RAID i.e. simultaneously on a number of NVMes. A lot of file systems synchronize the files between the different drives using this type of a setup, but there's no real guarantee that a file will not be corrupted. This may occur throughout the writing process on each drive and then a damaged copy can be copied on all other drives. What makes the difference on our platform is that ZFS examines the checksums of all files on all of the drives in real time and in the event that a corrupted file is found, it's replaced with a good copy with the correct checksum from another drive. That way, your info will remain unharmed 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 protected against silent data corruption because all our storage servers make use of the reliable ZFS file system. What makes the aforementioned unique is that it employs checksums, or digital identifiers, so as to guarantee the integrity of each file. When you upload content to your account, it will be placed on a couple of redundant drives in a RAID i.e. the files shall be the same on all disk drives. All the copies of a particular file will have the same checksum on all hard disks and ZFS will compare the checksums of the copies in real time, and if it finds 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 is a sudden power loss, the data on the servers won't get corrupted and there won't be any need for a time-consuming system check that other file systems perform after some failure, prolonging the time needed for the server to get back online. ZFS is the file system that can truly protect your content from silent data corruption.