The process of files being damaged as a consequence of some hardware or software failure is known as 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 info is filed on it, the more likely it is for data to be corrupted. You'll find several fail-safes, yet often the info gets corrupted silently, so neither the particular file system, nor the administrators see anything. Because of this, a damaged file will be treated as a standard one and if the hard disk is a part of a RAID, that file will be duplicated on all other disk drives. Theoretically, this is for redundancy, but in practice the damage will get worse. Once a file gets damaged, it will be partially or completely unreadable, therefore a text file will not 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 website content. Although the most well-known server file systems include various checks, they frequently fail to find some problem early enough or require a vast time period in order to check all files and the server will not be operational in the meantime.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Cloud Web Hosting

We guarantee the integrity of the data uploaded in every single cloud web hosting account that is created on our cloud platform as we use the advanced ZFS file system. The aforementioned is the only one that was designed to avert silent data corruption using a unique checksum for each file. We shall store your information on multiple NVMe drives which operate in a RAID, so the same files will be present on several places concurrently. ZFS checks the digital fingerprint of all files on all the drives in real time and if the checksum of any file is different from what it has to be, the file system swaps that file with a healthy copy from another drive inside the RAID. There's no other file system that uses checksums, so it is easy 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 concern yourself with the integrity of your data.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Semi-dedicated Servers

We've avoided any probability of files getting corrupted silently as the servers where your semi-dedicated server account will be created work with a powerful file system named ZFS. Its key advantage over alternative file systems is that it uses a unique checksum for every single file - a digital fingerprint that's checked in real time. As we save all content on numerous NVMe drives, ZFS checks if the fingerprint of a file on one drive matches the one on the remaining drives and the one it has saved. If there is a mismatch, the damaged copy is replaced with a healthy one from one of the other drives and because it happens right away, there's no chance that a corrupted copy can remain on our servers or that it could be duplicated to the other drives in the RAID. None of the other file systems employ this type of checks and in addition, even during a file system check following a sudden power failure, none of them can detect silently corrupted files. In contrast, ZFS does not crash after a blackout and the continual checksum monitoring makes a lenghty file system check unneeded.