The process of files being corrupted due 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 since the larger a hard disk is and the more data is filed on it, the more likely it is for data to get corrupted. You can find several fail-safes, still often the info becomes corrupted silently, so neither the file system, nor the administrators see anything. Consequently, a damaged file will be treated as a regular one and if the hard disk drive is part of a RAID, that file will be copied on all other disk drives. Theoretically, this is for redundancy, but in practice the damage will get worse. The moment a file gets damaged, it will be partly or fully unreadable, which means that a text file will not be readable, an image file will present a random combination of colors in case it opens at all and an archive shall be impossible to unpack, and you risk losing your content. Although the most well-known server file systems include various checks, they often fail to find a problem early enough or require an extensive amount of time to check all the files and the hosting server will not be functional in the meantime.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Cloud Website Hosting

The integrity of the data that you upload to your new cloud website hosting account will be guaranteed by the ZFS file system which we employ on our cloud platform. Most of the web hosting providers, like our company, use multiple hard drives to keep content and because the drives work in a RAID, the same info is synchronized between the drives at all times. In case a file on a drive gets damaged for reasons unknown, however, it's likely that it will be reproduced on the other drives as other file systems don't include special checks for that. Unlike them, ZFS uses a digital fingerprint, or a checksum, for each and every file. If a file gets damaged, its checksum won't match what ZFS has as a record for it, which means that the bad copy shall be substituted with a good one from a different hard disk. Due to the fact that this happens right away, there's no possibility for any of your files to ever get damaged.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Your semi-dedicated hosting account will be resistant to silent data corruption as all of our storage servers work with the innovative ZFS file system. What makes the aforementioned unique is that it employs checksums, or digital identifiers, so as to verify the integrity of each and every file. When you upload content to your account, it will be placed on several redundant drives in a RAID i.e. the files will be the same on all disk drives. All of the copies of a particular file will have the same checksum on all drives and ZFS will compare the checksums of the duplicates in real time, and if it identifies a mismatch, that would indicate that one of the copies is damaged, it will replace that file with a good copy from one of the other drives. Even if there's an unexpected blackout, the data on the servers will not become corrupted and there will not be any need for a time-consuming system check that other file systems perform following some breakdown, lengthening the time needed for the server to return online. ZFS is the sole file system which can truly protect your content from silent data corruption.