Data corruption is the unintentional modification of a file or the losing of info which often occurs during reading or writing. The reason may be hardware or software failure, and for that reason, a file may become partially or fully corrupted, so it will no longer function properly as its bits will be scrambled or missing. An image file, for example, will no longer show an authentic image, but a random mix of colors, an archive will be impossible to unpack since its content will be unreadable, etcetera. In case such an issue appears and it is not identified by the system or by an admin, the data will get corrupted silently and when this happens on a drive that's part of a RAID array where the information is synchronized between different drives, the corrupted file shall be duplicated on all other drives and the damage will become long term. Numerous commonly used file systems either don't feature real-time checks or don't have good ones that can detect a problem before the damage is done, so silent data corruption is a common matter on internet hosting servers where substantial amounts of data are kept.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Shared Hosting

The integrity of the data which you upload to your new shared hosting account shall be guaranteed by the ZFS file system that we take advantage of on our cloud platform. Most web hosting suppliers, like our company, use multiple hard disk drives to keep content and because the drives work in a RAID, the exact same data is synchronized between the drives all the time. When a file on a drive is corrupted for reasons unknown, yet, it is more than likely that it will be duplicated on the other drives as alternative file systems don't include special checks for this. In contrast to them, ZFS works with a digital fingerprint, or a checksum, for every file. In case a file gets damaged, its checksum will not match what ZFS has as a record for it, so the bad copy will be substituted with a good one from a different hard drive. As this happens in real time, there is no risk for any of your files to ever get corrupted.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Semi-dedicated Hosting

In case you get one of our semi-dedicated hosting packages, you will not have to worry about silent data corruption since we use ZFS - an advanced file system that checks all of the files in real time. Each time 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 synced between several NVMe drives for redundancy, so if one drive fails, the other ones will take control. ZFS compares the checksum of all copies on the different drives and if it detects a damaged copy, it replaces it with a healthy one from another drive. This happens in real time, so there will be no danger for any part of your content at any time. In comparison, other file systems perform checks after a system malfunction, but since they do not use anything similar to the checksums which ZFS uses, they can't detect silently corrupted files, so a bad copy can be replicated on the remaining disks as well and you can lose important data. Since this is not the case with ZFS, we are able to warrant the integrity of every single file you upload no matter what.