The process of files getting damaged caused by some hardware or software failure is referred to as data corruption and this is one of the main problems which hosting companies face because the larger a hard drive is and the more data is kept on it, the much more likely it is for data to get corrupted. You'll find different fail-safes, but often the data is damaged silently, so neither the particular file system, nor the admins notice anything. Because of this, a corrupted file will be handled as a good one and if the hard disk is part of a RAID, the file will be copied on all other drives. Theoretically, this is for redundancy, but in reality the damage will be even worse. The moment some file gets corrupted, it will be partly or entirely unreadable, therefore a text file will not be readable, an image file will show a random combination of colors in case it opens at all and an archive shall be impossible to unpack, and you risk sacrificing your site content. Although the most commonly used server file systems include various checks, they are likely to fail to find a problem early enough or require a long amount of time to be able to check all the files and the server will not be operational in the meantime.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Hosting

We guarantee the integrity of the info uploaded in any hosting account which is generated on our cloud platform due to the fact that we work with the advanced ZFS file system. The latter is the only one which was designed to prevent silent data corruption using a unique checksum for each file. We'll store your info on multiple SSD drives which work in a RAID, so identical files will exist on several places at once. ZFS checks the digital fingerprint of all the files on all of the drives in real time and in the event that the checksum of any file is different from what it should be, the file system swaps that file with a healthy copy from some other drive inside 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 reproduced on all drives with time, but since that can never happen on a server running ZFS, you won't have to worry about the integrity of your data.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Semi-dedicated Servers

You won't have to deal with any silent data corruption issues whatsoever in case you buy one of our semi-dedicated server packages since the ZFS file system that we work with on our cloud hosting platform uses checksums in order to guarantee that all of the files are intact all of the time. A checksum is a unique digital fingerprint that is allotted to each and every file saved on a server. As we store all content on multiple 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 right away. When it detects that a file is corrupted and its checksum is different from what it has to be, it replaces that file with a healthy copy right away, avoiding any probability of the damaged copy to be synchronized on the rest of the hard drives. ZFS is the sole file system on the market that uses checksums, which makes it far superior to other file systems that are not able to identify silent data corruption and copy bad files across hard drives.