The process of files being corrupted owing 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 as the larger a hard disk drive is and the more data is stored on it, the much more likely it is for data to be corrupted. There're a couple of fail-safes, still often the information becomes corrupted silently, so neither the file system, nor the administrators see a thing. Consequently, a corrupted file will be handled as a good one and if the hard drive is a part of a RAID, that file will be copied on all other drives. Theoretically, this is for redundancy, but in practice the damage will get worse. When a file gets damaged, it will be partially or completely unreadable, therefore a text file will no longer be readable, an image file will display a random combination of colors if it opens at all and an archive will be impossible to unpack, so you risk sacrificing your content. Although the most well-known server file systems include various checks, they are likely to fail to find a problem early enough or require an extensive period of time in order to check all the files and the web hosting server will not be operational in the meantime.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Cloud Web Hosting

The integrity of the data which you upload to your new cloud web hosting account will be ensured by the ZFS file system which we work with on our cloud platform. Most of the hosting suppliers, like our firm, use multiple HDDs to keep content and because the drives work in a RAID, the exact same information is synchronized between the drives at all times. In case a file on a drive is corrupted for some reason, yet, it's likely that it will be duplicated on the other drives because alternative file systems do not offer special checks for this. In contrast to them, ZFS works with a digital fingerprint, or a checksum, for each and every file. In case a file gets damaged, its checksum will not match what ZFS has as a record for it, which means that the bad copy shall be swapped with a good one from a different drive. Due to the fact that this happens immediately, there's no risk for any of your files to ever get corrupted.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Semi-dedicated Servers

Your semi-dedicated server account will be resistant to silent data corruption because all of our storage servers employ the state-of-the-art ZFS file system. What makes the latter unique is that it uses checksums, or digital identifiers, to ensure the integrity of each file. When you upload content to your account, it will be kept on a couple of redundant drives employed in a RAID i.e. the files shall be the same across all disks. All copies of a given file will have the same checksum on all hard disks and ZFS will compare the checksums of the copies quickly, so if it detects a mismatch, which will indicate that one of the copies is corrupted, it'll substitute that file with a good copy from one of the other drives. Even if there is an unforeseen power failure, the data on the servers will not be corrupted and there won't be any need for a time-consuming system check that other file systems perform after some malfunction, lengthening the time needed for the server to return online. ZFS is the file system that can really protect your content from silent data corruption.