The process of files getting corrupted because of some hardware or software failure is referred to as data corruption and this is among the main problems which web hosting companies face because the larger a hard disk is and the more data is placed on it, the much more likely it is for data to become corrupted. There're several fail-safes, still often the info gets damaged silently, so neither the file system, nor the administrators see anything. Because of this, a damaged file will be treated as a regular one and if the hard drive is a part of a RAID, that particular file will be copied on all other drives. In theory, this is done for redundancy, but in practice the damage will get worse. Once a given file gets corrupted, it will be partly or fully unreadable, so a text file will no longer be readable, an image file will show a random blend of colors if it opens at all and an archive shall be impossible to unpack, so you risk sacrificing your content. Although the most popular server file systems include various checks, they are likely to fail to identify a problem early enough or require a vast period of time to be able to check all of the files and the web hosting server will not be operational for the time being.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Hosting

We warrant the integrity of the data uploaded in each hosting account that is made on our cloud platform due to the fact that we employ the advanced ZFS file system. The aforementioned is the only one which was designed to prevent silent data corruption through a unique checksum for every single file. We will store your info on a number of NVMe drives that work in a RAID, so the very same files will be accessible on several places at once. ZFS checks the digital fingerprint of all 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 swaps that file with a healthy version from another drive within the RAID. No other file system uses checksums, so it's possible for data to be silently corrupted and the bad file to be replicated on all drives over time, but since this can never happen on a server using ZFS, you don't have to concern yourself with the integrity of your information.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Semi-dedicated Servers

Your semi-dedicated server account will be protected against silent data corruption as all of our storage servers employ the state-of-the-art ZFS file system. What makes the aforementioned unique is that it uses checksums, or digital identifiers, to guarantee the integrity of each file. When you upload content to your account, it'll be placed on several redundant drives in a RAID i.e. the files will be the same across all disks. All the copies of a specific file will feature the same checksum on all hard drives and ZFS will compare the checksums of the duplicates right away, so if it discovers a mismatch, that would indicate that one of the copies is damaged, it'll replace that file with a healthy copy from one of the other disks. Even if there's a sudden blackout, the data on the servers will not be corrupted and there won't be any need for a time-consuming system check that other file systems perform after some breakdown, lengthening the time needed for the server to return online. ZFS is the file system which can really protect your content from silent data corruption.