The process of files being corrupted resulting from some hardware or software failure is known as data corruption and this is one of the main problems that web hosting companies face because the larger a hard disk drive is and the more data is filed on it, the more likely it is for data to become corrupted. There're a couple of fail-safes, yet often the info is corrupted silently, so neither the particular file system, nor the administrators see anything. Thus, a bad file will be handled as a standard one and if the hard drive is part of a RAID, that particular file will be copied on all other drives. Theoretically, this is for redundancy, but in reality the damage will get worse. Once a given file gets damaged, it will be partly or completely unreadable, therefore a text file will not be readable, an image file will show a random mix 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 well-known server file systems include various checks, they frequently fail to find some problem early enough or require a long period of time to check all files and the server will not be operational for the time being.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Website Hosting

The integrity of the data that you upload to your new website hosting account shall be guaranteed by the ZFS file system that we use on our cloud platform. The vast majority of web hosting suppliers, including our firm, use multiple HDDs to store content and considering that the drives work in a RAID, the same info is synchronized between the drives all of the time. In case a file on a drive gets damaged for whatever reason, yet, it is likely that it will be copied on the other drives because other file systems do not feature special checks for that. In contrast to them, ZFS employs a digital fingerprint, or a checksum, for each and every file. If a file gets corrupted, its checksum won't match what ZFS has as a record for it, which means that the damaged copy shall be substituted with a good one from a different hard drive. Since this happens instantly, there's no possibility for any of your files to ever get damaged.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Semi-dedicated Hosting

You won't need to deal with any silent data corruption issues if you get one of our semi-dedicated hosting packages since the ZFS file system that we take advantage of on our cloud hosting platform uses checksums to guarantee that all of the files are undamaged all of the time. A checksum is a unique digital fingerprint that is assigned to each and every file stored on a server. As we store all content on a number of drives simultaneously, 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. In case 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 probability of the damaged copy to be synchronized on the remaining drives. ZFS is the sole file system you will find that uses checksums, which makes it much more reliable than other file systems that cannot identify silent data corruption and copy bad files across hard drives.