The process of files getting corrupted as a result of some hardware or software failure is referred to as data corruption and this is among the main problems that web hosting companies face as the larger a hard drive is and the more data is placed on it, the more likely it is for data to become corrupted. There're several fail-safes, still often the information is damaged silently, so neither the particular file system, nor the admins notice a thing. Thus, a corrupted file will be treated as a regular one and if the hard disk drive is part of a RAID, that particular file will be copied on all other drives. In theory, this is for redundancy, but in reality the damage will be worse. When a given file gets corrupted, it will be partly or completely unreadable, therefore a text file will not be readable, an image file will show a random combination of colors if it opens at all and an archive will be impossible to unpack, so you risk losing your website content. Although the most widespread server file systems feature various checks, they quite often fail to discover some problem early enough or require a long period of time to be able to check all files and the server will not be functional for the time being.
No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Shared Website Hosting
We warrant the integrity of the data uploaded in each shared website hosting account which is created on our cloud platform as we use the advanced ZFS file system. The aforementioned is the only one which was designed to avert silent data corruption using a unique checksum for each file. We shall store your data on multiple NVMe drives which work in a RAID, so exactly the same files will be available on several places at once. ZFS checks the digital fingerprint of all the files on all of the drives in real time and in the event that the checksum of any file is different from what it needs to be, the file system swaps that file with an undamaged copy from a different drive in the RAID. No other file system uses checksums, so it's possible for data to become silently corrupted and the bad file to be duplicated on all drives over time, but since this can never happen on a server using ZFS, you will not have to concern yourself with the integrity of your data.
No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Semi-dedicated Servers
You will not need to deal with any silent data corruption issues if you purchase one of our semi-dedicated server solutions as the ZFS file system that we employ on our cloud hosting platform uses checksums in order to ensure that all of the files are undamaged at all times. A checksum is a unique digital fingerprint which is assigned to each and every file stored on a server. Because we store all content on multiple drives at the same time, the same file uses the same checksum on all drives and what ZFS does is that it compares the checksums between the different drives in real time. When 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 other hard drives. ZFS is the only file system you can get that uses checksums, which makes it far superior to other file systems which are not able to detect silent data corruption and copy bad files across hard drives.