The process of files being damaged because of some hardware or software failure is known as data corruption and this is one of the main problems that Internet hosting companies face because the larger a hard disk is and the more data is filed on it, the much more likely it is for data to be corrupted. You'll find several fail-safes, but often the info becomes damaged silently, so neither the particular file system, nor the administrators detect a thing. Thus, a bad file will be handled as a regular one and if the hard disk is a part of a RAID, that particular file will be copied on all other disk drives. In theory, this is done for redundancy, but in practice the damage will get worse. The moment a given file gets damaged, it will be partially or completely unreadable, which means that a text file will not be readable, an image file will display a random blend of colors in case it opens at all and an archive will be impossible to unpack, and you risk losing your website content. Although the most widespread server file systems have various checks, they frequently fail to detect a problem early enough or require a vast time period to check all of the files and the server will not be functional for the time being.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Website Hosting

We have resolved the problem of silent data corruption on our website hosting servers by using the leading-edge Z file system, or ZFS. The latter is more advanced than other file systems since it is the only one out there that checks all files immediately by employing a checksum - a digital identifier which is unique for every single file. When you upload content to your account, it'll be stored on several SSD drives and continually synced between them for redundancy. ZFS regularly examines the checksum of all files and if any file is detected as damaged, it's replaced quickly with a good copy from another disk. As this happens in real time, there's no risk that a damaged file may remain or may be duplicated on the rest of the SSDs. ZFS needs plenty of physical memory in order to carry out the real-time checks and the advantage of our cloud web hosting platform is that we work with multiple powerful servers working together. If you host your Internet sites with us, your info will be undamaged no matter what.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Semi-dedicated Servers

Your semi-dedicated server account will be resistant to silent data corruption as all of our storage servers use the efficient ZFS file system. What makes the latter unique is that it employs checksums, or digital identifiers, to verify the integrity of every single file. When you upload content to your account, it'll be saved on several redundant drives operating in a RAID i.e. the files shall be the same on all disk drives. 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 copies right away, and if it finds a mismatch, which would indicate that one of the copies is corrupted, it will replace that file with a healthy copy from one of the other drives. Even if there is an unexpected blackout, the data on the servers won't become corrupted and there won't be any need for a time-consuming system check that other file systems perform following some breakdown, prolonging the time needed for the server to go back online. ZFS is the file system which can truly protect your content from silent data corruption.