The process of files being corrupted as a consequence of some hardware or software failure is known as data corruption and this is among the main problems which hosting companies face as the larger a hard disk drive is and the more data is filed on it, the much more likely it is for data to get corrupted. There are a couple of fail-safes, yet often the info becomes damaged silently, so neither the file system, nor the administrators detect anything. Because of this, a damaged file will be treated as a standard one and if the HDD is part of a RAID, that particular file will be copied on all other drives. In principle, this is for redundancy, but in reality the damage will get even worse. The moment a given file gets corrupted, it will be partially or completely unreadable, so a text file will no longer be readable, an image file will present a random blend of colors in case it opens at all and an archive will be impossible to unpack, and you risk sacrificing your content. Although the most popular server file systems feature various checks, they quite often fail to identify a problem early enough or require a long time period to be able to check all the files and the server will not be operational in the meantime.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Shared Web Hosting

The integrity of the data that you upload to your new shared web hosting account shall be ensured by the ZFS file system that we take advantage of on our cloud platform. The majority of web hosting suppliers, including our firm, use multiple HDDs to store content and since the drives work in a RAID, identical information is synchronized between the drives all of the time. If a file on a drive is damaged for whatever reason, yet, it's likely that it will be duplicated on the other drives since alternative file systems do not have special checks for that. Unlike them, ZFS works with a digital fingerprint, or a checksum, for each and every file. In the event that a file gets corrupted, its checksum won't match what ZFS has as a record for it, therefore the bad copy shall be swapped with a good one from a different hard drive. As this happens instantly, there is no risk for any of your files to ever be corrupted.

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 make use of the state-of-the-art ZFS file system. What makes the latter unique is that it employs checksums, or digital identifiers, in order to verify the integrity of each and every file. When you upload content to your account, it will be kept on a couple of redundant drives being employed in a RAID i.e. the files will be the same across all disks. All of the copies of a given file will feature the same checksum on all drives and ZFS will compare the checksums of the copies in real time, so if it registers a mismatch, that would indicate that one of the copies is damaged, it will substitute that file with a good copy from one of the other drives. Even if there's an unforeseen power loss, the data on the servers won't get corrupted and there won't be any need for a time-consuming system check which other file systems perform following some breakdown, extending the time needed for the server to go back online. ZFS is the file system which can truly protect your content from silent data corruption.