The process of files getting corrupted as a consequence of some hardware or software failure is referred to as data corruption and this is among the main problems which hosting companies face as the larger a hard disk is and the more data is stored on it, the much more likely it is for data to get corrupted. You can find a couple of fail-safes, but often the info is damaged silently, so neither the particular file system, nor the admins see anything. Consequently, a damaged file will be handled as a regular one and if the HDD is part of a RAID, that file will be copied on all other disk drives. In principle, this is for redundancy, but in reality the damage will get worse. Once some file gets corrupted, it will be partially or entirely unreadable, which means that a text file will no longer be readable, an image file will display a random blend of colors in case it opens at all and an archive will be impossible to unpack, and you risk losing your site content. Although the most widely used server file systems have various checks, they often fail to detect some problem early enough or require a long time period to check all the files and the hosting server will not be operational in the meantime.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Hosting

If you host your Internet sites in a hosting account from our company, you won't have to worry about your data ever getting damaged. We can ensure that because our cloud hosting platform employs the outstanding ZFS file system. The aforementioned is the only file system that works with checksums, or unique digital fingerprints, for each and every file. Any info that you upload will be stored in a RAID i.e. simultaneously on multiple SSDs. All file systems synchronize the files between the separate drives using this kind of a setup, but there's no real warranty that a file will not get corrupted. This can occur throughout the writing process on each drive and after that a corrupted copy may be copied on the rest of the drives. What is different on our platform is that ZFS analyzes the checksums of all files on all of the drives in real time and if a corrupted file is located, it's replaced with a good copy with the correct checksum from another drive. In this way, your info will remain intact no matter what, even if an entire drive fails.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Your semi-dedicated hosting account will be protected against silent data corruption since all of our storage servers work with the innovative ZFS file system. What makes the aforementioned unique is that it uses checksums, or digital identifiers, so as to ensure the integrity of every single file. When you upload content to your account, it'll be placed on several redundant drives employed in a RAID i.e. the files will be the same on all disks. All the copies of a specific file will feature the same checksum on all drives and ZFS will compare the checksums of the copies quickly, so if it detects a mismatch, which would indicate that one of the copies is damaged, it'll swap that file with a healthy copy from one of the other disks. Even if there's an unexpected blackout, the data on the servers won't get corrupted and there won't be any need for a time-consuming system check which other file systems perform following some malfunction, prolonging the time needed for the server to get back online. ZFS is the only file system that can truly protect your content from silent data corruption.