The process of files being corrupted owing to some hardware or software failure is referred to as data corruption and this is among the main problems that web hosting companies face as the larger a hard disk is and the more information is kept on it, the much more likely it is for data to get corrupted. There are different fail-safes, still often the information is damaged silently, so neither the particular file system, nor the administrators see anything. Thus, a bad file will be treated as a standard one and if the hard drive is a part of a RAID, the file will be duplicated on all other disk drives. In theory, this is done for redundancy, but in practice the damage will be worse. Once some file gets corrupted, it will be partly or fully unreadable, so 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 content. Although the most frequently used server file systems have various checks, they are likely to fail to discover a problem early enough or require a vast amount of time to check all files and the web server will not be functional in the meantime.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Cloud Website Hosting

If you host your sites in a cloud website hosting account with our firm, you don't need to worry about your data ever getting damaged. We can guarantee that due to the fact that our cloud hosting platform employs the reliable ZFS file system. The aforementioned is the only file system which works with checksums, or unique digital fingerprints, for each and every file. All of the information that you upload will be saved in a RAID i.e. simultaneously on many NVMes. All of the 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 during the writing process on any drive and after that a bad copy may be copied on all other drives. What makes the difference on our platform is that ZFS compares the checksums of all files on all the drives instantly and if a corrupted file is discovered, it's substituted with a good copy with the correct checksum from some other drive. That way, your info will remain intact no matter what, even if an entire drive fails.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Semi-dedicated Hosting

We have avoided any chance of files getting corrupted silently as the servers where your semi-dedicated hosting account will be created take advantage of a powerful file system called ZFS. Its basic advantage over various other file systems is that it uses a unique checksum for each and every file - a digital fingerprint which is checked in real time. As we save all content on numerous NVMe drives, ZFS checks whether the fingerprint of a file on one drive corresponds to the one on the other drives and the one it has saved. When there's a mismatch, the bad copy is replaced with a good one from one of the other drives and considering that this happens instantly, there is no chance that a damaged copy can remain on our web hosting servers or that it could be copied to the other drives in the RAID. None of the other file systems work with this kind of checks and furthermore, even during a file system check right after an unexpected power failure, none of them can detect silently corrupted files. In contrast, ZFS doesn't crash after an electrical power failure and the regular checksum monitoring makes a time-consuming file system check unneeded.