The process of files being damaged due 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 because the larger a hard disk drive is and the more info is stored on it, the more likely it is for data to be corrupted. There're different fail-safes, still often the data gets corrupted silently, so neither the file system, nor the administrators see anything. Consequently, a damaged file will be treated as a standard one and if the hard drive is a part of a RAID, that particular file will be copied on all other drives. In theory, this is done for redundancy, but in practice the damage will be even worse. When some file gets damaged, it will be partly or completely unreadable, so 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 shall be impossible to unpack, and you risk sacrificing your website content. Although the most frequently used server file systems have various checks, they quite often fail to detect a problem early enough or require a long period of time to check all files and the server will not be functional in the meantime.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Cloud Hosting

The integrity of the data which you upload to your new cloud hosting account shall be ensured by the ZFS file system which we make use of on our cloud platform. The vast majority of internet hosting suppliers, like our firm, use multiple hard disk drives to keep content and because the drives work in a RAID, identical information is synchronized between the drives all of the time. In case a file on a drive is corrupted for some reason, however, it is likely that it will be reproduced on the other drives because other file systems do not offer special checks for that. In contrast to them, ZFS works with a digital fingerprint, or a checksum, for every file. In case a file gets corrupted, its checksum won't match what ZFS has as a record for it, and the damaged copy shall be swapped with a good one from another hard disk. Since this happens instantly, there's no possibility for any of your files to ever get damaged.

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 use the innovative ZFS file system. What makes the latter unique is that it employs checksums, or digital identifiers, so as to guarantee the integrity of every single file. When you upload content to your account, it'll be kept on several redundant drives being employed in a RAID i.e. the files shall be the same across all disk drives. All copies of a particular file will have the same checksum on all drives and ZFS will compare the checksums of the copies right away, so if it registers a mismatch, that 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's an unforeseen blackout, the data on the servers will not get corrupted and there won't be any need for a time-consuming system check which other file systems perform following some breakdown, extending the time needed for the server to go back online. ZFS is the sole file system that can really protect your content from silent data corruption.