The process of files getting damaged because of some hardware or software failure is called data corruption and this is one of the main problems which hosting companies face since the larger a hard drive is and the more data is kept on it, the more likely it is for data to be corrupted. You will find several fail-safes, still often the data gets damaged silently, so neither the file system, nor the admins detect anything. Thus, a bad file will be handled as a regular one and if the hard disk is part of a RAID, that file will be duplicated on all other disk drives. In theory, this is for redundancy, but in reality the damage will be even worse. Once a given file gets damaged, it will be partly or fully unreadable, so a text file will no longer be readable, an image file will show a random combination of colors if it opens at all and an archive will be impossible to unpack, and you risk sacrificing your content. Although the most frequently used server file systems include various checks, they often fail to identify some problem early enough or require an extensive period of time to check all files and the server will not be operational for the time being.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Cloud Hosting

The integrity of the data that you upload to your new cloud hosting account shall be ensured by the ZFS file system that we use on our cloud platform. The vast majority of hosting suppliers, including our firm, use multiple hard disks to keep content and since the drives work in a RAID, the exact same info is synchronized between the drives all the time. When a file on a drive gets corrupted for some reason, yet, it's more than likely that it will be copied on the other drives as other file systems don't feature special checks for this. Unlike them, ZFS employs a digital fingerprint, or a checksum, for every single file. In case a file gets corrupted, its checksum will not match what ZFS has as a record for it, which means that the bad copy will be replaced with a good one from another hard disk. Because this happens instantly, there's no possibility for any of your files to ever get corrupted.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Semi-dedicated Servers

You won't experience any kind of silent data corruption issues should you obtain one of our semi-dedicated server packages as the ZFS file system that we take advantage of on our cloud hosting platform uses checksums to ensure that all the files are intact at all times. A checksum is a unique digital fingerprint which is given to each and every file saved on a server. As we store all content on multiple drives at the same time, the same file has the same checksum on all the drives and what ZFS does is that it compares the checksums between the different drives right away. In case it detects that a file is corrupted and its checksum is different from what it should be, it replaces that file with a healthy copy without delay, avoiding any possibility of the corrupted copy to be synchronized on the rest of the drives. ZFS is the sole file system available on the market which uses checksums, which makes it far superior to other file systems which are not able to detect silent data corruption and duplicate bad files across drives.