The process of files getting damaged owing to some hardware or software failure is known as data corruption and this is among the main problems that Internet hosting companies face because the larger a hard drive is and the more info is stored on it, the much more likely it is for data to become corrupted. There're different fail-safes, yet often the data becomes damaged silently, so neither the file system, nor the administrators notice anything. As a result, a corrupted file will be handled as a regular one and if the hard drive is a part of a RAID, the file will be duplicated on all other drives. In theory, this is done for redundancy, but in reality the damage will get even worse. Once a given file gets corrupted, it will be partly or entirely unreadable, so a text file will no longer be readable, an image file will show a random mix of colors if it opens at all and an archive will be impossible to unpack, so you risk sacrificing your website content. Although the most widespread server file systems have various checks, they frequently fail to detect some problem early enough or require a vast period of time in order to check all files and the hosting server will not be functional in the meantime.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Cloud Hosting

We warrant the integrity of the information uploaded in every single cloud hosting account that is generated on our cloud platform since we employ the advanced ZFS file system. The latter is the only one that was designed to prevent silent data corruption via a unique checksum for every single file. We'll store your data on a number of NVMe drives that function in a RAID, so exactly the same files will be available on several places at the same time. ZFS checks the digital fingerprint of all the files on all of the drives in real time and if the checksum of any file differs from what it needs to be, the file system swaps that file with a healthy version from a different drive inside the RAID. No other file system uses checksums, so it's possible for data to become silently damaged and the bad file to be reproduced on all drives with time, but since that can never happen on a server running ZFS, you do not 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 shielded from silent data corruption since all our storage servers employ the state-of-the-art ZFS file system. What makes the aforementioned unique is that it employs checksums, or digital identifiers, to guarantee the integrity of every single file. When you upload content to your account, it will be saved on several redundant drives employed in a RAID i.e. the files will be the same across all disk drives. All copies of a given file will have the same checksum on all drives and ZFS will compare the checksums of the duplicates quickly, so if it registers a mismatch, which will indicate that one of the copies is corrupted, it'll swap that file with a good copy from one of the other drives. Even if there's a sudden power loss, the data on the servers won't be corrupted and there won't be any need for a time-consuming system check that other file systems perform following some breakdown, prolonging the time needed for the server to go back online. ZFS is the sole file system that can truly protect your content from silent data corruption.