The process of files being damaged caused by some hardware or software failure is referred to as data corruption and this is one of the main problems which web hosting companies face because the larger a hard drive is and the more info is filed on it, the more likely it is for data to be corrupted. There're various fail-safes, yet often the information gets damaged silently, so neither the file system, nor the administrators see anything. As a result, a bad file will be handled as a standard one and if the HDD is a part of a RAID, that particular file will be copied on all other drives. In principle, this is done for redundancy, but in reality the damage will get even worse. When a given file gets damaged, it will be partly or entirely unreadable, therefore a text file will no longer be readable, an image file will present a random blend of colors if it opens at all and an archive will be impossible to unpack, so you risk sacrificing your website content. Although the most frequently used server file systems include various checks, they quite often fail to discover some problem early enough or require an extensive amount of time to be able to check all of the files and the server will not be functional in the meantime.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Shared Hosting

The integrity of the data that you upload to your new shared hosting account shall be guaranteed by the ZFS file system that we work with on our cloud platform. The majority of internet hosting service providers, including our company, use multiple hard disks to keep content and considering that the drives work in a RAID, exactly the same data is synchronized between the drives all of the time. If a file on a drive is damaged for some reason, however, it is more than likely that it will be reproduced on the other drives because other file systems do not include special checks for this. In contrast to them, ZFS works with a digital fingerprint, or a checksum, for each file. In the event that a file gets damaged, its checksum won't match what ZFS has as a record for it, so the damaged copy will be swapped with a good one from another hard disk. Since this happens right away, there is no risk for any of your files to ever be damaged.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Semi-dedicated Hosting

You will not experience any kind of silent data corruption issues if you obtain one of our semi-dedicated hosting packages due to the fact that the ZFS file system that we work with on our cloud hosting platform uses checksums in order to make sure that all of your files are undamaged all of the time. A checksum is a unique digital fingerprint which is allotted to each and every file kept on a server. Due to the fact that we store all content on a number of drives at the same time, the same file uses the same checksum on all of the drives and what ZFS does is that it compares the checksums between the different drives right away. If it detects that a file is corrupted and its checksum is different from what it has to be, it replaces that file with a healthy copy right away, avoiding any probability of the damaged copy to be synchronized on the remaining hard drives. ZFS is the sole file system on the market which uses checksums, which makes it much more dependable than other file systems that are not able to identify silent data corruption and duplicate bad files across drives.