The process of files getting damaged due to some hardware or software failure is called data corruption and this is among the main problems which Internet hosting companies face because the larger a hard drive is and the more data is stored on it, the more likely it is for data to get corrupted. You can find different fail-safes, but often the info is damaged silently, so neither the particular file system, nor the admins notice anything. As a result, a bad file will be treated as a good one and if the hard disk drive is part of a RAID, the file will be copied on all other disk drives. In principle, this is done for redundancy, but in reality the damage will get worse. The moment some file gets damaged, it will be partly or fully unreadable, therefore a text file will not be readable, an image file will display a random combination of colors if it opens at all and an archive shall be impossible to unpack, and you risk sacrificing your content. Although the most frequently used server file systems feature various checks, they often fail to discover a problem early enough or require a long time period to be able to check all of the files and the server will not be operational for the time being.
No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Cloud Web Hosting
We guarantee the integrity of the info uploaded in each cloud web hosting account that is created on our cloud platform since we use the advanced ZFS file system. The aforementioned is the only one which was designed to avert silent data corruption via a unique checksum for every single file. We shall store your info on a number of SSD drives which function in a RAID, so the very same files will be available on several places concurrently. ZFS checks the digital fingerprint of all files on all of the drives in real time and in case the checksum of any file differs from what it needs to be, the file system replaces that file with an undamaged copy from a different drive within the RAID. No other file system uses checksums, so it's possible for data to get silently damaged and the bad file to be replicated on all drives over time, but since that can never happen on a server using ZFS, you won't have to worry about the integrity of your info.
No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Semi-dedicated Hosting
You will not need to deal with any silent data corruption issues if you purchase one of our semi-dedicated hosting plans because the ZFS file system that we take advantage of on our cloud hosting platform uses checksums to ensure that all of your files are intact all the time. A checksum is a unique digital fingerprint which is assigned to each and every file saved on a server. Since we store all content on multiple drives at the same time, the same file uses the same checksum on all the drives and what ZFS does is that it compares the checksums between the different drives right away. If it detects that a file is corrupted and its checksum is different from what it has to be, it replaces that file with a healthy copy without delay, avoiding any chance of the bad copy to be synchronized on the rest of the hard drives. ZFS is the only file system you can get that uses checksums, which makes it much more dependable than other file systems which cannot detect silent data corruption and duplicate bad files across hard drives.