The process of files getting corrupted owing to some hardware or software failure is referred to as data corruption and this is one of the main problems which hosting companies face since the larger a hard disk drive is and the more data is kept on it, the much more likely it is for data to be corrupted. You will find a couple of fail-safes, still often the data is corrupted silently, so neither the particular file system, nor the administrators see a thing. As a result, a damaged file will be treated as a standard one and if the hard drive is a part of a RAID, that particular file will be duplicated on all other disk drives. In principle, this is done for redundancy, but in reality the damage will be even worse. Once a given file gets damaged, it will be partially or entirely unreadable, therefore a text file will no longer be readable, an image file will present a random combination of colors in case it opens at all and an archive will be impossible to unpack, and you risk losing your content. Although the most frequently used server file systems have various checks, they frequently fail to identify a problem early enough or require an extensive period of time to check all the files and the hosting server will not be functional in the meantime.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Shared Website Hosting

In case you host your websites in a shared website hosting account with our firm, you won't have to worry about any of your data ever getting damaged. We can guarantee that as our cloud hosting platform uses the advanced ZFS file system. The latter is the only file system which uses checksums, or unique digital fingerprints, for each and every file. All the data that you upload will be stored in a RAID i.e. simultaneously on many SSD drives. Many file systems synchronize the files between the different drives using this kind of a setup, but there is no real guarantee that a file will not get corrupted. This could occur during the writing process on each drive and after that a corrupted copy can be copied on the other drives. What makes the difference on our platform is the fact that ZFS analyzes the checksums of all files on all the drives in real time and if a corrupted file is found, it is replaced with a good copy with the correct checksum from some other drive. This way, your info will remain undamaged no matter what, even if a whole drive fails.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you get one of our semi-dedicated hosting packages, you will not have to worry about silent data corruption since we use ZFS - an advanced file system which keeps track of all the files in real time. Every time you upload a file to your account, ZFS will assign a unique digital fingerprint to it - the so-called checksum. This file will be synchronized between a couple of SSD drives for redundancy, so if a drive fails, the other ones will take over. ZFS compares the checksum of all copies on the different drives and if it detects a corrupted copy, it replaces it with a healthy one from another drive. This happens immediately, so there will be no danger for any part of your content at any time. By comparison, all the other file systems carry out checks only after a system malfunction, but since they do not use anything similar to the checksums that ZFS uses, they cannot detect silently corrupted files, so a corrupted copy could be replicated on the remaining disks as well and you can lose crucial information. As this is not the case with ZFS, we're able to warrant the integrity of each and every file you upload no matter what.