The process of files getting damaged owing to some hardware or software failure is known as data corruption and this is one of the main problems which Internet hosting companies face because the larger a hard disk drive is and the more info is placed on it, the much more likely it is for data to become corrupted. There are several fail-safes, still often the info is damaged silently, so neither the particular file system, nor the administrators notice anything. Consequently, a corrupted file will be handled as a standard one and if the hard disk drive is part of a RAID, that particular file will be duplicated on all other drives. In theory, this is for redundancy, but in reality the damage will be even worse. When a file gets damaged, it will be partially or fully unreadable, so a text file will not be readable, an image file will display a random mix of colors in case it opens at all and an archive will be impossible to unpack, and you risk losing your site content. Although the most well-known server file systems include various checks, they are likely to fail to identify some problem early enough or require a vast amount of time to check all files and the server will not be operational for the time being.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Shared Hosting

The integrity of the data which you upload to your new shared hosting account shall be ensured by the ZFS file system which we work with on our cloud platform. The majority of hosting service providers, like our company, use multiple HDDs to store content and considering that the drives work in a RAID, identical information is synchronized between the drives all the time. If a file on a drive is corrupted for whatever reason, however, it is more than likely that it will be duplicated on the other drives as alternative file systems don't offer special checks for that. In contrast to them, ZFS applies a digital fingerprint, or a checksum, for each and every file. If a file gets damaged, its checksum won't match what ZFS has as a record for it, therefore the bad copy shall be swapped with a good one from another drive. Since this happens immediately, there is no possibility for any of your files to ever be damaged.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Semi-dedicated Servers

Your semi-dedicated server account will be protected against silent data corruption as all of our storage servers work with the effective ZFS file system. What makes the aforementioned unique is that it employs checksums, or digital identifiers, so as to verify the integrity of each and every file. When you upload content to your account, it will be saved on several redundant drives in a RAID i.e. the files will be the same on all disks. All of the copies of a given file will feature the same checksum on all hard disks and ZFS will compare the checksums of the copies quickly, and if it detects a mismatch, that will indicate that one of the copies is corrupted, it will replace that file with a healthy copy from one of the other disks. Even if there's a sudden blackout, the data on the servers will not get corrupted and there will not be any need for a time-consuming system check which other file systems perform after some breakdown, prolonging the time needed for the server to go back online. ZFS is the file system that can truly protect your content from silent data corruption.