The process of files being corrupted resulting from some hardware or software failure is known as data corruption and this is among the main problems that hosting companies face as the larger a hard drive is and the more info is stored on it, the much more likely it is for data to be corrupted. There're several fail-safes, but often the information is damaged silently, so neither the particular file system, nor the administrators see anything. Consequently, a corrupted file will be treated as a good one and if the HDD is a part of a RAID, the file will be copied on all other drives. In theory, this is done for redundancy, but in practice the damage will get worse. Once a given file gets corrupted, it will be partly or completely unreadable, so 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, so you risk losing your website content. Although the most frequently used server file systems have various checks, they often fail to discover some problem early enough or require a long period of time in order to check all the files and the hosting server will not be operational in the meantime.
No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Cloud Website Hosting
If you host your sites in a cloud website hosting account from our firm, you don't have to worry about any of your data ever getting corrupted. We can guarantee that since our cloud hosting platform works with the cutting-edge ZFS file system. The aforementioned is the only file system which uses checksums, or unique digital fingerprints, for every single file. Any kind of information that you upload will be stored in a RAID i.e. simultaneously on numerous NVMes. All file systems synchronize the files between the different drives using this kind of a setup, but there is no real guarantee that a file won't get corrupted. This may happen throughout the writing process on any drive and after that a bad copy can be copied on the other drives. What makes the difference on our platform is the fact that ZFS examines the checksums of all files on all the drives in real time and in the event that a corrupted file is discovered, it is replaced with a good copy with the correct checksum from another drive. By doing this, your information will remain intact no matter what, even if a whole drive fails.
No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Semi-dedicated Hosting
You won't encounter any silent data corruption issues whatsoever if you buy one of our semi-dedicated hosting plans due to the fact that the ZFS file system that we use on our cloud hosting platform uses checksums in order to guarantee that all of your files are undamaged all the time. A checksum is a unique digital fingerprint which is assigned 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 drives and what ZFS does is that it compares the checksums between the different drives in real time. In the event that 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 possibility of the bad copy to be synchronized on the remaining 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 identify silent data corruption and copy bad files across drives.