The process of files getting corrupted as a result of some hardware or software failure is known as data corruption and this is among the main problems that Internet hosting companies face as the larger a hard disk is and the more data is stored on it, the more likely it is for data to be corrupted. You will find different fail-safes, but often the data becomes damaged silently, so neither the file system, nor the administrators see a thing. Because of this, a corrupted file will be handled as a standard one and if the hard drive is part of a RAID, that file will be duplicated on all other drives. In principle, this is for redundancy, but in practice the damage will get even worse. Once some file gets damaged, it will be partly or completely unreadable, therefore a text file will not be readable, an image file will display a random combination of colors in case it opens at all and an archive will be impossible to unpack, so you risk sacrificing your content. Although the most popular server file systems feature various checks, they are likely to fail to identify a problem early enough or require an extensive time period in order to check all the files and the hosting server will not be functional for the time being.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Cloud Hosting

We guarantee the integrity of the information uploaded in each cloud hosting account which is made on our cloud platform because we work with the advanced ZFS file system. The latter is the only one that was designed to prevent silent data corruption thanks to a unique checksum for each and every file. We shall store your data on a large number of NVMe drives that work in a RAID, so exactly the same files will be accessible on several places at once. ZFS checks the digital fingerprint of all the files on all the drives in real time and in the event that the checksum of any file is different from what it has to be, the file system swaps that file with a healthy version from some other drive within the RAID. There's no other file system that uses checksums, so it's easy for data to be silently corrupted and the bad file to be duplicated on all drives with time, but since this can never happen on a server running ZFS, you won't have to concern yourself with the integrity of your info.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Semi-dedicated Hosting

We have avoided any probability of files getting corrupted silently as the servers where your semi-dedicated hosting account will be created take advantage of a powerful file system known as ZFS. Its main advantage over other file systems is that it uses a unique checksum for every single file - a digital fingerprint that's checked in real time. As we store all content on numerous NVMe drives, ZFS checks if the fingerprint of a file on one drive corresponds to the one on the remaining drives and the one it has saved. If there is a mismatch, the damaged copy is replaced with a good one from one of the other drives and considering that this happens right away, there's no chance that a damaged copy can remain on our website hosting servers or that it can be duplicated to the other drives in the RAID. None of the other file systems use such checks and what's more, even during a file system check following a sudden blackout, none of them will discover silently corrupted files. In contrast, ZFS doesn't crash after a power loss and the regular checksum monitoring makes a time-consuming file system check obsolete.