Data corruption is the unintentional change of a file or the losing of information that often occurs during reading or writing. The reason can be hardware or software fail, and as a consequence, a file may become partially or fully corrupted, so it'll no longer work properly as its bits will be scrambled or lacking. An image file, for instance, will no longer show an actual image, but a random combination of colors, an archive will be impossible to unpack since its content will be unreadable, etcetera. In the event that such an issue appears and it is not identified by the system or by an administrator, the data will become corrupted silently and in case this happens on a disk drive that's part of a RAID array where the data is synced between various drives, the corrupted file will be copied on all of the other drives and the damage will be permanent. A large number of commonly used file systems either do not feature real-time checks or do not have good ones that will detect a problem before the damage is done, so silent data corruption is a common matter on hosting servers where large amounts of information are stored.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Shared Website Hosting

The integrity of the data that you upload to your new shared website hosting account will be ensured by the ZFS file system which we make use of on our cloud platform. Most of the hosting suppliers, like our company, use multiple HDDs to keep content and considering that the drives work in a RAID, the exact same info is synchronized between the drives all of the time. When a file on a drive is damaged for some reason, yet, it is likely that it will be copied on the other drives since other file systems don't have special checks for that. In contrast to them, ZFS uses a digital fingerprint, or a checksum, for each file. If a file gets corrupted, its checksum will not match what ZFS has as a record for it, and the damaged copy shall be swapped with a good one from a different disk drive. Because this happens immediately, there's no risk for any of your files to ever be damaged.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Semi-dedicated Hosting

You won't have to deal with any silent data corruption issues whatsoever if you buy one of our semi-dedicated hosting solutions due to the fact that the ZFS file system that we work with on our cloud hosting platform uses checksums to guarantee that all the files are intact all of the time. A checksum is a unique digital fingerprint which is given to each and every file saved on a server. Because we store all content on a number of drives at the same time, the same file uses the same checksum on all of the 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 should be, it replaces that file with a healthy copy without delay, avoiding any chance of the corrupted copy to be synchronized on the remaining hard drives. ZFS is the only file system out there that uses checksums, which makes it much more reliable than other file systems that are unable to identify silent data corruption and duplicate bad files across hard drives.