The process of files getting damaged because of some hardware or software failure is referred to 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 more likely it is for data to get corrupted. There're various fail-safes, still often the info becomes corrupted silently, so neither the file system, nor the administrators detect anything. Thus, a bad file will be handled as a standard one and if the HDD is part of a RAID, that file will be duplicated on all other drives. In principle, this is done for redundancy, but in reality the damage will get even worse. The moment a file gets damaged, it will be partly or fully unreadable, which means that a text file will no longer be readable, an image file will show a random mix of colors in case it opens at all and an archive will be impossible to unpack, and you risk losing your content. Although the most widespread server file systems feature various checks, they are likely to fail to find a problem early enough or require a long time period to check all files and the hosting server will not be operational in the meantime.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Shared Website Hosting

In case you host your sites in a shared website hosting account with our company, you will not need to worry about any of your data ever getting damaged. We can ensure that as our cloud hosting platform employs the amazing ZFS file system. The aforementioned is the only file system that uses checksums, or unique digital fingerprints, for each and every file. All the information that you upload will be stored in a RAID i.e. simultaneously on many SSD drives. A lot of file systems synchronize the files between the separate drives using this type of a setup, but there is no real guarantee that a file won't get corrupted. This could occur during the writing process on any drive and after that a damaged copy can be copied on the other drives. What is different on our platform is that ZFS compares the checksums of all files on all the drives instantly and if a corrupted file is located, it's swapped with a good copy with the correct checksum from some other drive. That way, your info will stay 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 resistant to silent data corruption because all of our storage servers employ the effective ZFS file system. What makes the aforementioned unique is that it uses checksums, or digital identifiers, to guarantee the integrity of every single file. When you upload content to your account, it will be placed on several redundant drives being employed in a RAID i.e. the files will be the same on all drives. All copies of a particular file will feature the same checksum on all drives and ZFS will compare the checksums of the copies in real time, and if it discovers a mismatch, which would indicate that one of the copies is damaged, it'll swap that file with a good copy from one of the other disks. Even if there is a sudden power loss, the data on the servers will not become corrupted and there won't be any need for a time-consuming system check which other file systems perform after some failure, lengthening the time needed for the server to get back online. ZFS is the only file system that can really protect your content from silent data corruption.