The process of files being corrupted owing to some hardware or software failure is referred to as data corruption and this is among the main problems that Internet hosting companies face because the larger a hard disk is and the more info is filed on it, the much more likely it is for data to get corrupted. You can find different fail-safes, yet often the information gets damaged silently, so neither the file system, nor the admins detect a thing. Consequently, a bad file will be treated as a standard one and if the hard drive is a part of a RAID, that file will be duplicated on all other disk drives. In theory, this is for redundancy, but in practice the damage will be worse. When some file gets corrupted, it will be partially or completely unreadable, which means that a text file will no longer be readable, an image file will present a random mix of colors if it opens at all and an archive shall be impossible to unpack, and you risk losing your site content. Although the most well-known server file systems have various checks, they quite often fail to find a problem early enough or require a long period of time to be able to check all of the files and the web server will not be operational for the time being.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Website Hosting

The integrity of the data which you upload to your new website hosting account shall be guaranteed by the ZFS file system which we employ on our cloud platform. The vast majority of hosting suppliers, like our company, use multiple hard disk drives to keep content and considering that the drives work in a RAID, the same info is synchronized between the drives all the time. If a file on a drive is corrupted for some reason, yet, it's likely that it will be duplicated on the other drives because alternative file systems don't have special checks for this. In contrast to them, ZFS uses a digital fingerprint, or a checksum, for each file. In the event that a file gets corrupted, its checksum will not match what ZFS has as a record for it, so the bad copy will be substituted with a good one from a different hard disk. Because this happens instantly, there's no possibility for any of your files to ever be corrupted.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Semi-dedicated Servers

You won't have to deal with any kind of silent data corruption issues whatsoever should you buy one of our semi-dedicated server solutions since the ZFS file system that we take advantage of on our cloud hosting platform uses checksums in order to guarantee that all files are intact all the time. A checksum is a unique digital fingerprint that is allotted to each and every file saved on a server. Since we store all content on multiple drives at the same time, the same file has the same checksum on all the drives and what ZFS does is that it compares the checksums between the different drives in real time. If it detects that a file is corrupted and its checksum is different from what it should be, it replaces that file with a healthy copy without delay, avoiding any probability of the bad copy to be synchronized on the other drives. ZFS is the only file system you can get that uses checksums, which makes it much more dependable than other file systems that are not able to identify silent data corruption and copy bad files across drives.