The process of files being corrupted owing to 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 disk drive is and the more data is placed on it, the more likely it is for data to be corrupted. You'll find several fail-safes, yet often the data becomes damaged silently, so neither the particular file system, nor the administrators see a thing. As a result, a corrupted file will be treated as a regular one and if the hard disk is part of a RAID, that particular file will be copied on all other drives. In principle, this is done for redundancy, but in practice the damage will get even worse. When a file gets damaged, it will be partially or completely unreadable, therefore a text file will not be readable, an image file will show a random combination of colors in case it opens at all and an archive shall be impossible to unpack, and you risk sacrificing your site content. Although the most widespread server file systems include various checks, they quite often fail to find a problem early enough or require a long amount of time in order to check all of the files and the server will not be operational for the time being.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Shared Hosting

We warrant the integrity of the information uploaded in every shared hosting account that is made on our cloud platform as we employ the advanced ZFS file system. The latter is the only one that was designed to prevent silent data corruption using a unique checksum for each and every file. We'll store your data on multiple NVMe drives which operate in a RAID, so the same files will be accessible on several places at the same time. ZFS checks the digital fingerprint of all the files on all the drives in real time and in case the checksum of any file is different from what it has to be, the file system replaces 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 become silently corrupted and the bad file to be reproduced on all drives with time, but since this can never happen on a server using ZFS, you don't have to worry about the integrity of your info.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Semi-dedicated Servers

You won't encounter any kind of silent data corruption issues if you get one of our semi-dedicated server plans because the ZFS file system that we work with on our cloud hosting platform uses checksums in order to make sure that all of the files are intact at all times. A checksum is a unique digital fingerprint which is given to each and every file saved on a server. As we store all content on multiple drives at the same time, the same file has the same checksum on all drives and what ZFS does is that it compares the checksums between the different drives in real time. When 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 without delay, avoiding any possibility of the corrupted copy to be synchronized on the rest of the drives. ZFS is the sole file system you can get which uses checksums, which makes it far superior to other file systems which cannot detect silent data corruption and duplicate bad files across hard drives.