The process of files getting corrupted because of some hardware or software failure is known as data corruption and this is one of the main problems which web hosting companies face because the larger a hard disk is and the more information is kept on it, the much more likely it is for data to be corrupted. You can find different fail-safes, still often the information becomes damaged silently, so neither the file system, nor the administrators notice 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, that file will be copied on all other drives. Theoretically, this is done for redundancy, but in practice the damage will get even worse. When a file gets damaged, it will be partially or entirely unreadable, so a text file will not be readable, an image file will display a random mix of colors in case it opens at all and an archive shall be impossible to unpack, so you risk losing your content. Although the most well-known server file systems feature various checks, they are likely to fail to discover some problem early enough or require a vast period of time to be able to check all of the files and the web server will not be functional for the time being.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Web Hosting

We warrant the integrity of the data uploaded in every single web hosting account which is created on our cloud platform because we use the advanced ZFS file system. The latter is the only one that was designed to avert silent data corruption through a unique checksum for every single file. We will store your data on multiple NVMe drives that work in a RAID, so identical files will be available on several places at once. ZFS checks the digital fingerprint of all of the files on all drives in real time and in the event that the checksum of any file is different from what it should be, the file system replaces that file with a healthy copy from some other drive within the RAID. There's no other file system that uses checksums, so it is possible for data to get silently corrupted and the bad file to be replicated on all drives with time, but since that can never happen on a server running ZFS, you will not have to worry about the integrity of your information.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Your semi-dedicated hosting account will be resistant to silent data corruption because all our storage servers work with the efficient ZFS file system. What makes the aforementioned unique is that it employs checksums, or digital identifiers, so as to verify the integrity of each file. When you upload content to your account, it will be kept on several redundant drives employed in a RAID i.e. the files will be the same across all drives. All of the copies of a particular file will feature the same checksum on all hard drives and ZFS will compare the checksums of the copies in real time, so if it registers a mismatch, which will indicate that one of the copies is corrupted, it will substitute that file with a healthy copy from one of the other drives. Even if there's a sudden blackout, the data on the servers will not get corrupted and there won't be any need for a time-consuming system check that other file systems perform following some breakdown, lengthening the time needed for the server to return online. ZFS is the sole file system that can really protect your content from silent data corruption.