The process of files getting corrupted owing to some hardware or software failure is called data corruption and this is one of the main problems which Internet hosting companies face since the larger a hard drive is and the more data is stored on it, the more likely it is for data to get corrupted. There are a couple of fail-safes, still often the info becomes corrupted silently, so neither the particular file system, nor the admins notice anything. As a result, a damaged file will be handled as a standard one and if the hard drive is part of a RAID, the file will be copied on all other drives. In principle, this is for redundancy, but in reality the damage will get even worse. Once some file gets damaged, it will be partially or fully unreadable, so a text file will no longer be readable, an image file will display a random blend of colors in case it opens at all and an archive will be impossible to unpack, so you risk sacrificing your site content. Although the most widely used server file systems have various checks, they frequently fail to detect some problem early enough or require an extensive period of time to check all of the files and the server will not be operational for the time being.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Web Hosting

We guarantee the integrity of the data uploaded in each web hosting account which is made on our cloud platform due to the fact that we work with the advanced ZFS file system. The aforementioned is the only one that was designed to avert silent data corruption via a unique checksum for each file. We'll store your data on a large number of NVMe drives which operate in a RAID, so exactly the same files will be accessible on several places at the same time. ZFS checks the digital fingerprint of all the files on all drives in real time and in the event that the checksum of any file differs from what it should be, the file system replaces that file with an undamaged copy from a different drive within the RAID. No other file system uses checksums, so it is possible for data to get silently corrupted and the bad file to be reproduced on all drives over time, but since this can never happen on a server running ZFS, you don't have to concern yourself with the integrity of your data.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Your semi-dedicated hosting account will be protected against silent data corruption as all of our storage servers work with the efficient ZFS file system. What makes the aforementioned unique is that it uses checksums, or digital identifiers, to ensure the integrity of each and every file. When you upload content to your account, it'll be kept on a couple of redundant drives in a RAID i.e. the files will be the same across all disk drives. All of the copies of a specific file will feature the same checksum on all hard disks and ZFS will compare the checksums of the copies right away, and if it identifies a mismatch, which would indicate that one of the copies is damaged, it will replace that file with a healthy copy from one of the other disks. Even if there is an unexpected power failure, the data on the servers won't become corrupted and there will not be any need for a time-consuming system check which other file systems perform following some malfunction, prolonging 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.