The process of files getting damaged due to some hardware or software failure is referred to as data corruption and this is one of the main problems that Internet hosting companies face because the larger a hard disk drive is and the more info is filed on it, the much more likely it is for data to be corrupted. You can find a couple of fail-safes, yet often the info becomes corrupted silently, so neither the particular file system, nor the administrators notice a thing. Because of this, a corrupted file will be handled as a standard one and if the hard disk drive is part of a RAID, that file will be copied on all other drives. Theoretically, this is for redundancy, but in reality the damage will be worse. Once a file gets corrupted, it will be partly or entirely unreadable, therefore a text file will no longer be readable, an image file will display a random mix of colors if it opens at all and an archive shall be impossible to unpack, so you risk losing your site content. Although the most popular server file systems include various checks, they often fail to discover a problem early enough or require a long time period to be able to check all the files and the server will not be operational in the meantime.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Shared Hosting

In case you host your sites in a shared hosting account from our firm, you don't need to worry about your data ever getting corrupted. We can guarantee that as our cloud hosting platform uses the reliable ZFS file system. The aforementioned is the only file system that uses checksums, or unique digital fingerprints, for each file. All the data that you upload will be kept in a RAID i.e. simultaneously on multiple NVMes. All 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 be corrupted. This could happen at the time of the writing process on any drive and then a bad copy can be copied on the rest of the drives. What is different on our platform is that ZFS examines the checksums of all files on all drives in real time and if a corrupted file is found, it's swapped with a good copy with the correct checksum from some other drive. In this way, your info will stay undamaged no matter what, even if an entire drive fails.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Semi-dedicated Servers

In case you obtain one of our semi-dedicated server plans, you won't need to be concerned about silent data corruption because we use ZFS - a high level file system that monitors all of the files in real time. Every time you upload a file to your hosting account, ZFS will assign a unique digital fingerprint to it - the so-called checksum. This file will be synced between a number of NVMe drives for redundancy, so if one drive fails, the other ones will take over. ZFS compares the checksum of all of the copies on the different drives and when it detects a corrupted copy, it replaces it with a healthy one from a different drive. This is done in real time, so there will be no danger for any part of your content at any moment. In contrast, other file systems carry out checks only after a system breakdown, but since they do not use anything similar to the checksums that ZFS uses, they can't detect silently corrupted files, so a bad copy can be replicated on the other drives as well and you can lose critical data. Because this isn't the case with ZFS, we warrant the integrity of every single file you upload no matter what.