The process of files being corrupted as a consequence of some hardware or software failure is known as data corruption and this is one of the main problems which hosting companies face since the larger a hard disk is and the more data is placed on it, the more likely it is for data to become corrupted. You'll find a couple of fail-safes, still often the info becomes damaged silently, so neither the file system, nor the admins see a thing. Because of this, a bad file will be treated as a regular one and if the HDD is part of a RAID, that file will be duplicated on all other disk drives. In theory, this is done for redundancy, but in practice the damage will get even worse. The moment a file gets damaged, it will be partially or completely unreadable, which means that a text file will not be readable, an image file will display a random mix of colors if it opens at all and an archive will be impossible to unpack, and you risk losing your website content. Although the most widely used server file systems have various checks, they often fail to identify some problem early enough or require an extensive period of time in order to check all of the files and the hosting server will not be functional in the meantime.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Cloud Website Hosting

The integrity of the data that you upload to your new cloud website hosting account will be ensured by the ZFS file system that we take advantage of on our cloud platform. Most of the hosting service providers, like our firm, use multiple hard drives to keep content and since the drives work in a RAID, the exact same information is synchronized between the drives at all times. If a file on a drive gets corrupted for whatever reason, yet, it is very likely that it will be duplicated on the other drives since other file systems do not have special checks for this. In contrast to them, ZFS applies a digital fingerprint, or a checksum, for each and every file. If a file gets corrupted, its checksum won't match what ZFS has as a record for it, so the damaged copy shall be substituted with a good one from another hard disk. Due to the fact that this happens right away, there is no possibility for any of your files to ever be damaged.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Semi-dedicated Servers

We have avoided any chance of files getting corrupted silently as the servers where your semi-dedicated server account will be created employ a powerful file system named ZFS. Its key advantage over other file systems is that it uses a unique checksum for each file - a digital fingerprint that is checked in real time. As we keep all content on numerous NVMe drives, ZFS checks if the fingerprint of a file on one drive matches the one on the other drives and the one it has saved. In the event that there's a mismatch, the damaged copy is replaced with a good one from one of the other drives and because it happens in real time, there's no chance that a corrupted copy can remain on our web servers or that it can be copied to the other hard disks in the RAID. None of the other file systems work with this type of checks and what is more, even during a file system check after a sudden blackout, none of them will find silently corrupted files. In contrast, ZFS will not crash after a power loss and the constant checksum monitoring makes a lenghty file system check unnecessary.