The process of files being corrupted as a consequence of some hardware or software failure is called data corruption and this is one of the main problems that hosting companies face since the larger a hard drive is and the more data is filed on it, the more likely it is for data to become corrupted. There're various fail-safes, still often the info gets corrupted silently, so neither the particular file system, nor the admins detect a thing. Because of this, a damaged file will be treated as a good one and if the HDD is part of a RAID, the file will be copied on all other drives. Theoretically, this is done for redundancy, but in reality the damage will get even worse. The moment some file gets corrupted, it will be partially or fully unreadable, therefore a text file will no longer be readable, an image file will show a random blend of colors in case it opens at all and an archive shall be impossible to unpack, and you risk sacrificing your site content. Although the most frequently used server file systems have various checks, they frequently fail to identify a problem early enough or require an extensive period of time to check all the files and the server will not be functional for the time being.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Shared Website Hosting

The integrity of the data that you upload to your new shared website hosting account shall be guaranteed by the ZFS file system that we work with on our cloud platform. The vast majority of web hosting service providers, like our company, use multiple hard disks to store content and since the drives work in a RAID, identical data is synchronized between the drives all of the time. When a file on a drive is corrupted for whatever reason, yet, it is likely that it will be reproduced on the other drives because alternative file systems do not feature special checks for that. Unlike them, ZFS uses a digital fingerprint, or a checksum, for each and every file. In the event that a file gets corrupted, its checksum won't match what ZFS has as a record for it, therefore the damaged copy shall be swapped with a good one from a different disk drive. As this happens immediately, there's no possibility for any of your files to ever get corrupted.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Semi-dedicated Hosting

You won't encounter any silent data corruption issues if you purchase one of our semi-dedicated hosting plans as the ZFS file system that we work with on our cloud hosting platform uses checksums in order to guarantee that all of your files are undamaged all of the time. A checksum is a unique digital fingerprint which is allotted to each and every file saved on a server. Because we store all content on multiple drives simultaneously, the same file has the same checksum on all of the drives and what ZFS does is that it compares the checksums between the different drives right away. In the event that 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 right away, avoiding any probability of the corrupted copy to be synchronized on the rest of the hard disks. ZFS is the sole file system you can get that uses checksums, which makes it far superior to other file systems which cannot identify silent data corruption and copy bad files across drives.