The process of files being damaged because of some hardware or software failure is referred to as data corruption and this is one of the main problems which hosting companies face as the larger a hard disk is and the more information is filed on it, the much more likely it is for data to become corrupted. You can find a couple of fail-safes, still often the info becomes damaged silently, so neither the particular file system, nor the administrators notice anything. Because of this, a damaged file will be treated as a regular one and if the HDD is part of a RAID, that file will be copied on all other drives. In theory, this is for redundancy, but in reality the damage will get worse. The moment a file gets corrupted, it will be partially or fully unreadable, which means that a text file will not be readable, an image file will display a random combination of colors in case it opens at all and an archive will be impossible to unpack, so you risk losing your content. Although the most widespread server file systems include various checks, they frequently fail to find some problem early enough or require a long period of time in order to check all the files and the web server will not be operational for the time being.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Cloud Web Hosting

We guarantee the integrity of the information uploaded in each and every cloud web hosting account that is created on our cloud platform due to the fact that we work with the advanced ZFS file system. The latter is the only one that was designed to prevent silent data corruption thanks to a unique checksum for every single file. We'll store your information on multiple NVMe drives that work in a RAID, so the same files will be present on several places concurrently. ZFS checks the digital fingerprint of all of the files on all drives in real time and in case the checksum of any file differs from what it needs to be, the file system swaps that file with a healthy copy from another drive from the RAID. No other file system uses checksums, so it is easy for data to get silently corrupted and the bad file to be replicated on all drives over time, but since that can never happen on a server using ZFS, you won't have to concern yourself with the integrity of your info.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you get one of our semi-dedicated server packages, you won't have to be concerned about silent data corruption because we use ZFS - a high level file system that monitors all files in real time. Each time you upload a file to your website hosting account, ZFS will assign a unique digital fingerprint to it - the so-called checksum. That file will be synced between a couple of NVMe drives for redundancy, so if a drive fails, the other ones will take control. ZFS compares the checksum of all the copies on the different drives and in case it detects a corrupted copy, it replaces it with a healthy one from another drive. This happens in real time, so there will be no risk for any part of your content at any moment. In contrast, alternative file systems perform checks only after a system failure, but since they don't use anything similar to the checksums which ZFS uses, they cannot detect silently corrupted files, so a bad copy may be replicated on the rest of the disks as well and you could lose important info. As this isn't the case with ZFS, we're able to guarantee the integrity of each and every file you upload no matter what.