The process of files getting damaged as a result of some hardware or software failure is known as data corruption and this is among the main problems that web hosting companies face as the larger a hard disk drive is and the more information is kept on it, the more likely it is for data to become corrupted. There are various fail-safes, yet often the information is corrupted silently, so neither the particular file system, nor the administrators see a thing. Thus, a damaged file will be handled as a regular one and if the hard drive is part of a RAID, the file will be copied on all other drives. In principle, this is for redundancy, but in reality the damage will be even worse. When a file gets corrupted, it will be partially or fully unreadable, which means that a text file will not be readable, an image file will display a random blend of colors if it opens at all and an archive shall be impossible to unpack, and you risk losing your site content. Although the most commonly used server file systems include various checks, they frequently fail to detect a problem early enough or require an extensive time period to be able to check all of the files and the web server will not be operational in the meantime.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Shared Website Hosting

The integrity of the data that you upload to your new shared website hosting account will be ensured by the ZFS file system which we work with on our cloud platform. The majority of web hosting providers, including our firm, use multiple hard disks to store content and because the drives work in a RAID, the same info is synchronized between the drives all the time. If a file on a drive is damaged for whatever reason, yet, it's more than likely that it will be reproduced on the other drives because other file systems don't have special checks for that. Unlike them, ZFS applies a digital fingerprint, or a checksum, for each file. If a file gets damaged, its checksum will not match what ZFS has as a record for it, which means that the damaged copy will be swapped with a good one from another drive. Due to the fact that this happens instantly, there is no risk for any of your files to ever be corrupted.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Semi-dedicated Servers

Your semi-dedicated server account will be resistant to silent data corruption since all of our storage servers use the effective ZFS file system. What makes the aforementioned unique is that it employs checksums, or digital identifiers, to ensure the integrity of every single file. When you upload content to your account, it will be kept on several redundant drives operating in a RAID i.e. the files shall be the same across all disks. All of the copies of a specific file will have the same checksum on all hard disks and ZFS will compare the checksums of the duplicates in real time, so if it detects a mismatch, that will indicate that one of the copies is damaged, it'll swap that file with a healthy copy from one of the other disks. 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 failure, prolonging the time needed for the server to return online. ZFS is the file system which can truly protect your content from silent data corruption.