The process of files getting corrupted resulting from some hardware or software failure is referred to as data corruption and this is among the main problems which Internet hosting companies face as the larger a hard disk drive is and the more information is placed on it, the more likely it is for data to be corrupted. You will find a couple of fail-safes, but often the data is corrupted silently, so neither the particular file system, nor the administrators detect anything. As a result, a corrupted file will be handled as a good one and if the hard disk is a part of a RAID, that particular file will be copied on all other disk drives. Theoretically, this is for redundancy, but in reality the damage will get even worse. When a given file gets corrupted, it will be partly 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 shall be impossible to unpack, so you risk sacrificing your content. Although the most widely used server file systems include various checks, they frequently fail to identify a problem early enough or require a vast time period to check all of the files and the web server will not be functional for the time being.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Shared Website Hosting

We warrant the integrity of the info uploaded in each and every shared website hosting account which is created on our cloud platform since we use the advanced ZFS file system. The latter is the only one that was designed to prevent silent data corruption using a unique checksum for each file. We'll store your info on a large number of NVMe drives that function in a RAID, so identical files will be accessible 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 replaces that file with a healthy version from another drive from the RAID. There's no other file system that uses checksums, so it's easy for data to get silently corrupted and the bad file to be replicated on all drives with time, but since that can never happen on a server using ZFS, you don't have to worry about the integrity of your data.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Semi-dedicated Hosting

In case you buy one of our semi-dedicated hosting solutions, you won't have to be concerned about silent file corruption since we use ZFS - a high level file system that monitors all the files in real time. Whenever you upload a file to your website hosting account, ZFS will assign a unique digital fingerprint to it - the so-called checksum. The file will be synced between a number of NVMe drives for redundancy, so if a drive fails, the other ones will take over. ZFS compares the checksum of all copies on the different drives and in case it detects a damaged copy, it replaces it with a healthy one from another drive. This is done right away, so there will be no danger for any part of your content at any time. In contrast, other file systems carry out checks after a system breakdown, but since they do not use anything similar to the checksums which ZFS uses, they won't detect silently corrupted files, so a bad copy can be replicated on the remaining disks as well and you may lose precious data. As this is not the case with ZFS, we can guarantee the integrity of every single file you upload no matter what.