The process of files getting corrupted resulting from some hardware or software failure is called data corruption and this is one of the main problems which Internet hosting companies face as the larger a hard disk is and the more data is placed on it, the much more likely it is for data to be corrupted. You'll find a couple of fail-safes, but often the data becomes corrupted silently, so neither the file system, nor the admins see anything. As a result, a bad file will be treated as a regular one and if the hard disk is a part of a RAID, that particular file will be duplicated on all other drives. Theoretically, this is done for redundancy, but in reality the damage will get even worse. The moment a given file gets corrupted, it will be partly or fully unreadable, so a text file will no longer be readable, an image file will present a random blend of colors in case it opens at all and an archive shall be impossible to unpack, and you risk losing your website content. Although the most well-known server file systems have various checks, they often fail to discover some problem early enough or require an extensive amount of time to be able to check all files and the web hosting server will not be functional for the time being.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Cloud Hosting

We guarantee the integrity of the info uploaded in every single cloud hosting account that is generated on our cloud platform due to the fact that we work with the advanced ZFS file system. The aforementioned is the only one that was designed to avert silent data corruption through a unique checksum for every single file. We shall store your data on a number of NVMe drives that function in a RAID, so identical files will be accessible on several places at the same time. ZFS checks the digital fingerprint of all of the files on all the drives in real time and in case the checksum of any file is different from what it has to be, the file system replaces that file with an undamaged copy from another drive from the RAID. There's no other file system that uses checksums, so it is easy for data to get silently damaged and the bad file to be duplicated on all drives with time, but since this can never happen on a server using ZFS, you don't have to worry about the integrity of your data.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you get one of our semi-dedicated server plans, you won't have to worry about silent file corruption because we use ZFS - a high level file system which checks all files in real time. Each time you upload a file to your hosting account, ZFS will assign a unique digital fingerprint to it - the so-called checksum. The file will be synchronized between multiple NVMe drives for redundancy, so if a drive fails, the other ones will take control. ZFS compares the checksum of all the copies on the different drives and in case it detects a damaged copy, it replaces it with a healthy one from a different drive. This is done instantly, so there will be no risk for any part of your content at any time. By comparison, alternative file systems perform checks only after a system failure, but since they don't use anything similar to the checksums which ZFS uses, they won't detect silently corrupted files, so a bad copy may be replicated on the other disks as well and you can lose critical info. Because this is not the case with ZFS, we warrant the integrity of each and every file you upload no matter what.