The process of files getting corrupted because of some hardware or software failure is called data corruption and this is among the main problems which web hosting companies face because the larger a hard drive is and the more information is kept on it, the much more likely it is for data to be corrupted. You can find various fail-safes, still often the data becomes damaged silently, so neither the particular file system, nor the admins see anything. Thus, a bad file will be treated as a good one and if the hard drive is part of a RAID, that particular file will be copied on all other drives. Theoretically, this is done for redundancy, but in reality the damage will be even worse. Once a file gets damaged, it will be partly or fully unreadable, which means that 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 shall be impossible to unpack, so you risk sacrificing your website content. Although the most widely used server file systems have various checks, they frequently fail to discover a problem early enough or require a vast amount of time in order to check all of the files and the hosting server will not be operational in the meantime.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Shared Hosting

We warrant the integrity of the information uploaded in each and every shared hosting account that is generated on our cloud platform since we use the advanced ZFS file system. The latter is the only one which was designed to avert silent data corruption thanks to a unique checksum for each file. We will store your info on a large number of SSD drives which operate in a RAID, so exactly the same files will be available on several places simultaneously. ZFS checks the digital fingerprint of all the files on all of the drives in real time and in case the checksum of any file is different from what it has to be, the file system swaps that file with a healthy copy from some other drive from the RAID. There's no other file system which uses checksums, so it's possible for data to be silently damaged and the bad file to be duplicated on all drives over time, but since this can never happen on a server using ZFS, you don't have to concern yourself with the integrity of your data.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Semi-dedicated Hosting

You won't need to deal with any silent data corruption issues whatsoever 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 make sure that all of your files are undamaged at all times. A checksum is a unique digital fingerprint which is assigned to each and every file kept on a server. As we store all content on a number of drives simultaneously, the same file has the same checksum on all of the drives and what ZFS does is that it compares the checksums between the different drives right away. In case 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 corrupted copy to be synchronized on the other drives. ZFS is the sole file system you can get that uses checksums, which makes it much more reliable than other file systems which cannot identify silent data corruption and copy bad files across hard drives.