The process of files getting damaged resulting from some hardware or software failure is called data corruption and this is among the main problems which hosting companies face as the larger a hard drive is and the more information is stored on it, the more likely it is for data to get corrupted. There're several fail-safes, but often the info gets corrupted silently, so neither the particular file system, nor the admins detect a thing. Thus, a corrupted file will be handled as a standard one and if the HDD is part of a RAID, that particular file will be duplicated on all other disk drives. In theory, this is done for redundancy, but in reality the damage will be even worse. When a file gets corrupted, it will be partly or completely unreadable, therefore a text file will not be readable, an image file will present a random mix of colors in case it opens at all and an archive will be impossible to unpack, so you risk losing your website content. Although the most frequently used server file systems feature various checks, they are likely to fail to discover a problem early enough or require an extensive period of time to be able to check all of the files and the web server will not be functional for the time being.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Cloud Web Hosting

The integrity of the data that you upload to your new cloud web hosting account shall be guaranteed by the ZFS file system that we take advantage of on our cloud platform. The majority of internet hosting suppliers, like our company, use multiple HDDs to keep content and because the drives work in a RAID, identical information is synchronized between the drives all of the time. When a file on a drive becomes damaged for some reason, however, it's more than likely that it will be reproduced on the other drives because other file systems do not include special checks for that. Unlike them, ZFS uses a digital fingerprint, or a checksum, for each file. In case a file gets corrupted, its checksum won't match what ZFS has as a record for it, which means that the damaged copy will be swapped with a good one from another hard drive. As this happens instantly, there's no risk for any of your files to ever get corrupted.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Your semi-dedicated hosting account will be shielded from silent data corruption since all of our storage servers make use of the effective ZFS file system. What makes the latter unique is that it uses checksums, or digital identifiers, so as to verify the integrity of each and every file. When you upload content to your account, it'll be saved on a couple of redundant drives working in a RAID i.e. the files will be the same across all drives. All copies of a given file will feature the same checksum on all hard drives and ZFS will compare the checksums of the duplicates in real time, and if it finds a mismatch, that would indicate that one of the copies is corrupted, it'll substitute that file with a good copy from one of the other drives. Even if there is a sudden power failure, the data on the servers will not become corrupted and there will not be any need for a time-consuming system check which other file systems perform following some malfunction, lengthening the time needed for the server to go back online. ZFS is the file system which can really protect your content from silent data corruption.