The process of files being damaged because of some hardware or software failure is called data corruption and this is among the main problems that Internet hosting companies face since the larger a hard drive is and the more info is filed on it, the more likely it is for data to get corrupted. You will find various fail-safes, yet often the info becomes corrupted silently, so neither the particular file system, nor the admins detect anything. As a result, a damaged file will be handled as a good one and if the hard disk is part of a RAID, the file will be duplicated on all other drives. Theoretically, this is for redundancy, but in practice the damage will be even worse. When some file gets corrupted, it will be partly 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 will be impossible to unpack, so you risk sacrificing your site content. Although the most commonly used server file systems have various checks, they often fail to detect some problem early enough or require a long time period to check all files and the web server will not be functional in the meantime.
No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Shared Website Hosting
We warrant the integrity of the info uploaded in any shared website hosting account which is created on our cloud platform as we use the advanced ZFS file system. The aforementioned is the only one which was designed to avert silent data corruption via a unique checksum for each and every file. We shall store your data on a large number of NVMe drives that function in a RAID, so exactly the same files will be accessible on several places at once. ZFS checks the digital fingerprint of all of the files on all 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 copy from another drive in the RAID. No other file system uses checksums, so it is easy for data to get silently corrupted and the bad file to be duplicated on all drives with time, but since that can never happen on a server using ZFS, you will not have to concern yourself with the integrity of your data.
No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Semi-dedicated Servers
You won't need to deal with any kind of silent data corruption issues in case you acquire one of our semi-dedicated server packages as the ZFS file system that we use on our cloud hosting platform uses checksums to ensure that all of your files are intact all of the time. A checksum is a unique digital fingerprint that is given to each and every file stored on a server. Due to the fact that we store all content on a number of drives simultaneously, 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. When 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 right away, avoiding any possibility of the bad copy to be synchronized on the other hard disks. ZFS is the sole file system on the market that uses checksums, which makes it much more reliable than other file systems which are unable to identify silent data corruption and duplicate bad files across drives.