The process of files getting damaged as a result of some hardware or software failure is known as data corruption and this is one of the main problems that Internet hosting companies face because the larger a hard disk drive is and the more information is stored on it, the much more likely it is for data to be corrupted. You can find various fail-safes, still often the data is corrupted silently, so neither the particular file system, nor the admins detect anything. Because of this, a damaged file will be treated as a standard one and if the hard disk is part of a RAID, the file will be duplicated on all other disk drives. Theoretically, this is for redundancy, but in practice the damage will get worse. When a file gets corrupted, it will be partially or entirely 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 will be impossible to unpack, and you risk sacrificing your website content. Although the most widely used server file systems include various checks, they quite often fail to find a problem early enough or require an extensive amount of time to be able to check all files and the server will not be operational in the meantime.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Shared Website Hosting

The integrity of the data which you upload to your new shared website hosting account will be guaranteed by the ZFS file system which we employ on our cloud platform. Most internet hosting service providers, like our company, use multiple hard disks to store content and because the drives work in a RAID, the exact same info is synchronized between the drives all the time. If a file on a drive gets damaged for whatever reason, however, it is likely that it will be duplicated on the other drives since alternative file systems don't include special checks for this. Unlike them, ZFS works with a digital fingerprint, or a checksum, for each and every file. In case a file gets damaged, its checksum won't match what ZFS has as a record for it, so the damaged copy will be replaced with a good one from a different hard disk. Since this happens immediately, there is no risk for any of your files to ever get corrupted.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Semi-dedicated Servers

You won't need to deal with any kind of silent data corruption issues if you obtain one of our semi-dedicated server packages due to the fact that the ZFS file system that we employ on our cloud hosting platform uses checksums in order to guarantee that all of the files are undamaged all the time. A checksum is a unique digital fingerprint which is allotted to each and every file saved on a server. As we store all content on multiple drives simultaneously, the same file has the same checksum on all the drives and what ZFS does is that it compares the checksums between the different drives in real time. When it detects that a file is corrupted and its checksum is different from what it should be, it replaces that file with a healthy copy right away, avoiding any possibility of the corrupted copy to be synchronized on the remaining hard drives. ZFS is the sole file system on the market that uses checksums, which makes it much more dependable than other file systems that are not able to detect silent data corruption and copy bad files across hard drives.