The process of files getting damaged because of some hardware or software failure is called data corruption and this is one of the main problems that Internet hosting companies face as the larger a hard disk drive is and the more information is placed on it, the much more likely it is for data to get corrupted. You will find several fail-safes, still often the data gets corrupted silently, so neither the particular file system, nor the admins notice a thing. As a result, a bad file will be handled as a standard one and if the hard disk drive is a part of a RAID, the file will be duplicated on all other disk drives. In theory, this is done for redundancy, but in reality the damage will get even worse. When some file gets damaged, it will be partly or fully unreadable, so a text file will not be readable, an image file will present a random blend of colors if it opens at all and an archive shall be impossible to unpack, so you risk sacrificing your website content. Although the most widespread server file systems include various checks, they frequently fail to find a problem early enough or require a long time period in order to check all of the files and the hosting 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 each web hosting account that is created on our cloud platform due to the fact that we employ the advanced ZFS file system. The latter is the only one which was designed to avoid silent data corruption using a unique checksum for each file. We shall store your data on a number of SSD drives that work in a RAID, so the exact same files will exist on several places at once. ZFS checks the digital fingerprint of all of the files on all of the drives in real time and in the event that the checksum of any file differs from what it needs to be, the file system replaces that file with an undamaged copy from a different drive from the RAID. There's no other file system that uses checksums, so it is easy for data to be silently damaged and the bad file to be replicated on all drives with time, but since that can never happen on a server using ZFS, you do not 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 since all our storage servers work with the innovative ZFS file system. What makes the latter unique is that it uses checksums, or digital identifiers, so as to guarantee the integrity of each 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 shall be the same on all disk drives. All the copies of a given file will have the same checksum on all hard disks and ZFS will compare the checksums of the duplicates in real time, so if it discovers a mismatch, which will 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 is a sudden power loss, the data on the servers won't get corrupted and there won't be any need for a time-consuming system check that other file systems perform following some breakdown, extending the time needed for the server to go back online. ZFS is the sole file system which can really protect your content from silent data corruption.