The process of files getting corrupted due to some hardware or software failure is called data corruption and this is among the main problems which hosting companies face as the larger a hard drive is and the more data is filed on it, the much more likely it is for data to become corrupted. You will find several fail-safes, still often the information becomes damaged silently, so neither the file system, nor the admins notice a thing. Consequently, a bad file will be handled as a standard one and if the hard drive is part of a RAID, that file will be copied on all other drives. In principle, this is done for redundancy, but in practice the damage will get worse. When a file gets corrupted, it will be partially or fully unreadable, so a text file will no longer be readable, an image file will show a random combination of colors if it opens at all and an archive shall be impossible to unpack, and 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 an extensive time period in order to check all of the files and the server will not be functional in the meantime.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Shared Hosting

We guarantee the integrity of the data uploaded in any shared hosting account that is created on our cloud platform because we work with the advanced ZFS file system. The aforementioned is the only one that was designed to avoid silent data corruption via a unique checksum for each file. We shall store your information on multiple NVMe drives that work in a RAID, so the same files will be accessible on several places simultaneously. ZFS checks the digital fingerprint of all of the files on all of the drives in real time and in the event that the checksum of any file is different from what it needs to be, the file system replaces that file with an undamaged version from a different drive within the RAID. There's no other file system which uses checksums, so it is easy for data to be silently corrupted and the bad file to be reproduced on all drives with time, but since this can never happen on a server running ZFS, you do not 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 shielded from silent data corruption since all our storage servers use the effective ZFS file system. What makes the aforementioned unique is that it employs checksums, or digital identifiers, to guarantee the integrity of each file. When you upload content to your account, it will be placed on several redundant drives in a RAID i.e. the files will be the same on all disks. All copies of a particular file will have the same checksum on all hard drives and ZFS will compare the checksums of the duplicates quickly, and if it finds a mismatch, which will indicate that one of the copies is damaged, it'll swap that file with a healthy copy from one of the other drives. Even if there's an unforeseen power failure, the data on the servers will not get corrupted and there will not be any need for a time-consuming system check which other file systems perform after some malfunction, prolonging the time needed for the server to get back online. ZFS is the file system that can truly protect your content from silent data corruption.