The process of files getting corrupted resulting from some hardware or software failure is referred to as data corruption and this is one of the main problems that hosting companies face because the larger a hard disk drive is and the more information is kept on it, the much more likely it is for data to become corrupted. You'll find different fail-safes, but often the data gets corrupted silently, so neither the particular file system, nor the admins notice anything. As a result, a bad file will be treated as a standard one and if the hard disk drive is a part of a RAID, that file will be duplicated on all other drives. In theory, this is done for redundancy, but in practice the damage will be worse. When a given file gets corrupted, it will be partially or completely unreadable, which means that a text file will no longer be readable, an image file will display a random blend of colors if it opens at all and an archive shall be impossible to unpack, so you risk losing your site content. Although the most commonly used server file systems feature various checks, they frequently fail to find a problem early enough or require a vast time period to be able to check all the files and the web hosting server will not be operational in the meantime.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Cloud Hosting

We warrant the integrity of the info uploaded in any cloud hosting account which is made on our cloud platform because we employ the advanced ZFS file system. The aforementioned is the only one that was designed to avert silent data corruption using a unique checksum for each and every file. We shall store your information on multiple NVMe drives that 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 of 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 copy from some other drive in the RAID. There's no other file system that uses checksums, so it is easy for data to become silently corrupted and the bad file to be reproduced on all drives over time, but since this can never happen on a server using ZFS, you don't have to worry about the integrity of your information.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Semi-dedicated Hosting

In case you get one of our semi-dedicated hosting solutions, you won't have to be concerned about silent file corruption as we use ZFS - an advanced file system which monitors all files in real time. Every time you upload a file to your hosting account, ZFS will assign a unique digital fingerprint to it - the so-called checksum. The file will be synced between a couple of NVMe drives for redundancy, so if one drive fails, the other ones will take over. ZFS compares the checksum of all copies on the different drives and in case it detects a corrupted copy, it replaces it with a healthy one from another drive. This is done right away, so there will be no danger for any part of your content at any moment. By comparison, all of the other file systems perform checks only after a system failure, but since they do not use anything similar to the checksums that ZFS uses, they cannot detect silently corrupted files, so a corrupted copy could be replicated on the remaining disks as well and you can lose critical information. Because this isn't the case with ZFS, we warrant the integrity of each and every file you upload no matter what.