The process of files getting corrupted caused by some hardware or software failure is known as data corruption and this is one of the main problems which hosting companies face because the larger a hard disk is and the more info is placed on it, the much more likely it is for data to become corrupted. There are various fail-safes, still often the data becomes damaged silently, so neither the file system, nor the administrators detect anything. Because of this, a bad file will be handled as a standard one and if the HDD is a part of a RAID, that file will be duplicated on all other disk drives. In theory, this is done for redundancy, but in practice the damage will be even worse. Once a file gets damaged, it will be partly or completely unreadable, which means that a text file will no longer be readable, an image file will present a random blend of colors if it opens at all and an archive shall be impossible to unpack, so you risk losing your site content. Although the most commonly used server file systems feature various checks, they quite often fail to discover some problem early enough or require an extensive period of time to be able to check all files and the hosting server will not be functional for the time being.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Shared Website Hosting

We warrant the integrity of the information uploaded in every shared website hosting account that is created on our cloud platform as we use the advanced ZFS file system. The latter is the only one that was designed to avoid silent data corruption via a unique checksum for each and every file. We shall store your info on a large number of NVMe drives which work in a RAID, so the exact same files will be available on several places concurrently. ZFS checks the digital fingerprint of all of the files on all the drives in real time and in case the checksum of any file is different from what it needs to be, the file system swaps that file with an undamaged version from some other drive inside the RAID. There's no other file system that uses checksums, so it's possible for data to be silently damaged and the bad file to be reproduced on all drives with time, but since this can never happen on a server running ZFS, you don't have to worry about the integrity of your information.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Semi-dedicated Hosting

In case you acquire one of our semi-dedicated hosting plans, you won't need to be concerned about silent data corruption as we use ZFS - an advanced file system that monitors all files in real time. Whenever you upload a file to your web hosting account, ZFS will assign a unique digital fingerprint to it - the so-called checksum. This file will be synchronized between a number of NVMe drives for redundancy, so if a drive fails, the other ones will take over. ZFS compares the checksum of all the copies on the different drives and in case it detects a damaged copy, it replaces it with a healthy one from a different drive. This happens right away, so there will be no risk for any part of your content at any time. In comparison, all the other file systems execute checks only after a system malfunction, but since they do not use anything similar to the checksums that ZFS uses, they can't detect silently corrupted files, so a corrupted copy could be replicated on the remaining drives as well and you could lose precious info. As this isn't the case with ZFS, we can guarantee the integrity of each file you upload no matter what.