The process of files being corrupted as a result of some hardware or software failure is called data corruption and this is one of the main problems which hosting companies face since the larger a hard disk is and the more info is stored on it, the much more likely it is for data to get corrupted. You'll find different fail-safes, but often the info becomes damaged silently, so neither the file system, nor the administrators notice anything. Thus, a corrupted file will be handled as a good one and if the hard disk is a part of a RAID, that file will be duplicated on all other disk drives. In principle, this is for redundancy, but in reality the damage will get even worse. The moment a given file gets damaged, it will be partially or fully unreadable, therefore a text file will not be readable, an image file will show a random combination of colors if it opens at all and an archive will be impossible to unpack, so you risk sacrificing your website content. Although the most frequently used server file systems have various checks, they often fail to find a problem early enough or require an extensive time period to check all the files and the web hosting server will not be functional in the meantime.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Shared Hosting

We warrant the integrity of the data uploaded in every shared hosting account that is generated on our cloud platform because we employ the advanced ZFS file system. The latter is the only one which was designed to avert silent data corruption via a unique checksum for every single file. We will store your info on multiple NVMe drives that work in a RAID, so the exact same files will be available on several places at the same time. ZFS checks the digital fingerprint of all the files on all of the drives in real time and if the checksum of any file differs from what it should be, the file system replaces that file with a healthy version from another drive inside the RAID. There's no other file system which uses checksums, so it's possible 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 running ZFS, you do not have to concern yourself with the integrity of your data.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Semi-dedicated Hosting

You won't have to deal with any silent data corruption issues should you get one of our semi-dedicated hosting packages due to the fact that the ZFS file system that we employ on our cloud hosting platform uses checksums in order to guarantee that all files are undamaged all the time. A checksum is a unique digital fingerprint which is given to each and every file kept on a server. Due to the fact that 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 right away. 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 without delay, avoiding any probability of the bad copy to be synchronized on the rest of the drives. ZFS is the sole file system available on the market that uses checksums, which makes it much more reliable than other file systems which cannot identify silent data corruption and duplicate bad files across hard drives.