The process of files getting damaged caused by some hardware or software failure is referred to as data corruption and this is one of the main problems that Internet hosting companies face since the larger a hard disk is and the more data is filed on it, the more likely it is for data to become corrupted. There are various fail-safes, yet often the info is corrupted silently, so neither the file system, nor the administrators detect a thing. Consequently, a corrupted file will be handled as a regular one and if the HDD is a part of a RAID, the file will be copied on all other disk drives. In principle, this is for redundancy, but in reality the damage will be even worse. When a given file gets damaged, it will be partially or entirely unreadable, so 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 content. Although the most well-known server file systems feature various checks, they often fail to discover 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 in the meantime.
No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Website Hosting
We guarantee the integrity of the information uploaded in each and every website hosting account that is generated on our cloud platform as we employ the advanced ZFS file system. The latter is the only one which was designed to prevent silent data corruption thanks to a unique checksum for each and every file. We will store your data on a number of NVMe drives which function in a RAID, so exactly the same files will be available on several places at the same time. ZFS checks the digital fingerprint of all files on all drives in real time and in case the checksum of any file is different from what it has to be, the file system swaps that file with a healthy version from a different drive in the RAID. There's no other file system that uses checksums, so it's possible 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 won't have to worry about the integrity of your data.
No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Semi-dedicated Hosting
You will not have to deal with any kind of silent data corruption issues whatsoever in case you get one of our semi-dedicated hosting packages due to the fact that the ZFS file system that we employ on our cloud hosting platform uses checksums in order to guarantee that all of your files are undamaged all the time. A checksum is a unique digital fingerprint that is assigned to each and every file stored on a server. Since we store all content on a number of drives simultaneously, the same file has the same checksum on all drives and what ZFS does is that it compares the checksums between the different drives right away. In the event that it detects that a file is corrupted and its checksum is different from what it should be, it replaces that file with a healthy copy right away, avoiding any possibility of the corrupted copy to be synchronized on the rest of the hard disks. ZFS is the sole file system out there that uses checksums, which makes it much more reliable than other file systems which are unable to identify silent data corruption and duplicate bad files across hard drives.