The process of files getting damaged owing to some hardware or software failure is called data corruption and this is one of the main problems that web hosting companies face as the larger a hard drive is and the more data is placed on it, the more likely it is for data to be corrupted. There are various fail-safes, still often the information gets damaged silently, so neither the file system, nor the admins see a thing. Because of this, a bad file will be treated as a standard one and if the hard disk drive is a part of a RAID, the file will be duplicated on all other drives. Theoretically, this is for redundancy, but in practice the damage will be even worse. Once a given file gets damaged, it will be partially or fully unreadable, so a text file will no longer be readable, an image file will display a random combination of colors if it opens at all and an archive will be impossible to unpack, and you risk sacrificing your content. Although the most popular server file systems feature various checks, they frequently fail to detect a problem early enough or require an extensive time period to be able to check all of the files and the hosting server will not be operational for the time being.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Web Hosting

If you host your Internet sites in a web hosting account with our firm, you do not need to worry about any of your data ever getting damaged. We can guarantee that because our cloud hosting platform uses the amazing ZFS file system. The latter is the only file system which uses checksums, or unique digital fingerprints, for each and every file. All of the info that you upload will be kept in a RAID i.e. simultaneously on a number of NVMe drives. All file systems synchronize the files between the different drives using this kind of a setup, but there is no real warranty that a file will not be corrupted. This may happen at the time of the writing process on any drive and afterwards a corrupted copy can be copied on all other drives. What makes the difference on our platform is the fact that ZFS analyzes the checksums of all files on all drives right away and when a corrupted file is identified, it's swapped with a good copy with the correct checksum from another drive. That way, your information will remain intact no matter what, even if an entire drive fails.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Semi-dedicated Servers

Your semi-dedicated server account will be resistant to silent data corruption as all our storage servers employ the effective ZFS file system. What makes the latter unique is that it uses checksums, or digital identifiers, in order to guarantee the integrity of each file. When you upload content to your account, it'll be saved on a couple of redundant drives being employed in a RAID i.e. the files will be the same on all drives. All copies of a given file will feature the same checksum on all drives and ZFS will compare the checksums of the copies in real time, so if it registers a mismatch, which would indicate that one of the copies is corrupted, it'll substitute that file with a good copy from one of the other drives. Even if there's an unforeseen power failure, the data on the servers will not be corrupted and there will not be any need for a time-consuming system check that other file systems perform following some failure, prolonging the time needed for the server to return online. ZFS is the only file system that can truly protect your content from silent data corruption.