The process of files getting corrupted due to some hardware or software failure is called data corruption and this is among the main problems that hosting companies face since the larger a hard drive is and the more data is placed on it, the more likely it is for data to be corrupted. You can find several fail-safes, still often the data becomes damaged silently, so neither the particular file system, nor the administrators see a thing. Because of this, a corrupted file will be handled as a good one and if the hard disk is part of a RAID, the file will be copied on all other disk drives. In theory, this is done for redundancy, but in practice the damage will get even worse. Once a given file gets damaged, it will be partly or entirely unreadable, so 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 will be impossible to unpack, so you risk sacrificing your website content. Although the most commonly used server file systems feature various checks, they often fail to detect some problem early enough or require a vast amount of time to check all the files and the server will not be operational in the meantime.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Shared Hosting

We guarantee the integrity of the info uploaded in any shared hosting account which is generated on our cloud platform as we work with the advanced ZFS file system. The aforementioned is the only one that was designed to avoid silent data corruption thanks to a unique checksum for each file. We shall store your data on multiple SSD drives that function in a RAID, so identical files will be accessible on several places simultaneously. ZFS checks the digital fingerprint of all of the files on all the drives in real time and if the checksum of any file is different from what it has to be, the file system replaces that file with an undamaged version from a different drive within the RAID. No other file system uses checksums, so it is possible for data to become silently damaged and the bad file to be duplicated on all drives over time, but since this can never happen on a server using ZFS, you do not have to concern yourself with the integrity of your info.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Semi-dedicated Hosting

In case you purchase one of our semi-dedicated hosting packages, you will not need to worry about silent data corruption as we use ZFS - an advanced file system which checks all files in real time. Every time you upload a file to your website hosting account, ZFS will assign a unique digital fingerprint to it - the so-called checksum. The file will be synchronized between multiple SSD drives for redundancy, so if one drive fails, the other ones will take over. ZFS compares the checksum of all of the copies on the different drives and if it detects a corrupted copy, it replaces it with a healthy one from a different drive. This happens right away, so there will be no danger for any part of your content at any moment. In comparison, all of the other file systems perform checks after a system failure, but since they do not use anything similar to the checksums which ZFS uses, they are unable to detect silently corrupted files, so a corrupted copy could be replicated on the other disks as well and you can lose important data. Because this isn't the case with ZFS, we are able to warrant the integrity of every single file you upload no matter what.