The process of files getting damaged resulting from some hardware or software failure is referred to as data corruption and this is one of the main problems which Internet hosting companies face since the larger a hard disk is and the more data is filed on it, the much more likely it is for data to become corrupted. There're different fail-safes, yet often the information gets corrupted silently, so neither the particular file system, nor the administrators see anything. Consequently, a corrupted file will be treated as a standard one and if the HDD is part of a RAID, that file will be duplicated on all other disk drives. In theory, this is for redundancy, but in reality the damage will get even worse. When some file gets damaged, it will be partially or fully unreadable, which means that a text file will no longer be readable, an image file will display a random mix of colors in case it opens at all and an archive will be impossible to unpack, so you risk sacrificing your website content. Although the most commonly used server file systems include various checks, they quite often fail to detect a problem early enough or require a long time period in order to check all the files and the server will not be operational in the meantime.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Cloud Hosting

We warrant the integrity of the info uploaded in each cloud hosting account that is generated on our cloud platform due to the fact that we employ the advanced ZFS file system. The latter is the only one which was designed to prevent silent data corruption through a unique checksum for each file. We shall store your info on a large number of SSD drives which work in a RAID, so the very same files will be present on several places at once. ZFS checks the digital fingerprint of all files on all the drives in real time and in the event that the checksum of any file is different from what it has to be, the file system replaces that file with an undamaged copy from some other drive from the RAID. There's no other file system that uses checksums, so it is possible for data to become silently damaged and the bad file to be reproduced on all drives with time, but since this can never happen on a server running ZFS, you won't have to worry about the integrity of your info.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Semi-dedicated Hosting

We've avoided any risk of files getting damaged silently since the servers where your semi-dedicated hosting account will be created use a powerful file system known as ZFS. Its key advantage over alternative file systems is that it uses a unique checksum for each and every file - a digital fingerprint that's checked in real time. As we keep all content on multiple SSD drives, ZFS checks whether the fingerprint of a file on one drive corresponds to the one on the remaining drives and the one it has stored. In the event that there's a mismatch, the bad copy is replaced with a good one from one of the other drives and considering that it happens instantly, there is no chance that a corrupted copy could remain on our website hosting servers or that it could be duplicated to the other hard disks in the RAID. None of the other file systems work with this type of checks and furthermore, even during a file system check following an unexpected power loss, none of them will discover silently corrupted files. In contrast, ZFS won't crash after a power loss and the continual checksum monitoring makes a lenghty file system check unneeded.