The process of files getting corrupted due to some hardware or software failure is known as data corruption and this is among the main problems which Internet hosting companies face because the larger a hard disk drive is and the more data is filed on it, the more likely it is for data to become corrupted. There are various fail-safes, still often the information gets corrupted silently, so neither the file system, nor the admins detect anything. Because of this, a bad file will be handled as a regular one and if the hard drive is a part of a RAID, that file will be duplicated on all other drives. In principle, this is for redundancy, but in reality the damage will be worse. Once a given file gets damaged, it will be partly or fully unreadable, therefore 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 will be impossible to unpack, and you risk losing your website content. Although the most frequently used server file systems feature various checks, they frequently fail to find a problem early enough or require an extensive time period to check all the files and the hosting server will not be functional in the meantime.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Web Hosting

We warrant the integrity of the data uploaded in each web hosting account which 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 which was designed to avert silent data corruption using a unique checksum for each and every file. We'll store your data on a number of NVMe drives which operate in a RAID, so the very same files will exist on several places concurrently. ZFS checks the digital fingerprint of all the files on all the 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 an undamaged version from some other drive in the RAID. There's no other file system which uses checksums, so it's 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 will not have to worry about the integrity of your information.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you get one of our semi-dedicated server packages, you will not have to be concerned about silent data corruption since we use ZFS - a high level file system which keeps track of all files in real time. Each time you upload a file to your account, ZFS will assign a unique digital fingerprint to it - the so-called checksum. That file will be synced between multiple NVMe drives for redundancy, so if one drive fails, the other ones will take control. ZFS compares the checksum of all the copies on the different drives and if it detects a corrupted copy, it replaces it with a healthy one from another drive. This is done instantly, so there will be no danger for any part of your content at any moment. In comparison, other file systems perform checks only after a system breakdown, but since they do not use anything similar to the checksums that ZFS uses, they are unable to detect silently corrupted files, so a corrupted copy could be replicated on the rest of the drives as well and you can lose precious info. Since this is not the case with ZFS, we are able to guarantee the integrity of each file you upload no matter what.