Data corruption is the unintentional change of a file or the loss of information that usually occurs during reading or writing. The reason can be hardware or software malfunction, and due to this fact, a file could become partially or entirely corrupted, so it will no longer work as it should since its bits shall be scrambled or lacking. An image file, for example, will no longer show an accurate image, but a random combination of colors, an archive will be impossible to unpack since its content will be unreadable, and so on. If such a problem occurs and it is not found by the system or by an administrator, the data will become corrupted silently and in case this happens on a drive that is a part of a RAID array where the information is synced between different drives, the corrupted file shall be reproduced on all other drives and the harm will be permanent. A number of widespread file systems either don't have real-time checks or don't have good ones that will detect a problem before the damage is done, so silent data corruption is a common issue on internet hosting servers where substantial amounts of info are stored.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Shared Hosting

The integrity of the data which you upload to your new shared hosting account will be ensured by the ZFS file system that we work with on our cloud platform. Most of the hosting providers, including our company, use multiple hard drives to keep content and considering that the drives work in a RAID, the same information is synchronized between the drives all the time. If a file on a drive gets corrupted for reasons unknown, yet, it's more than likely that it will be duplicated on the other drives as other file systems do not offer special checks for that. Unlike them, ZFS works with a digital fingerprint, or a checksum, for each and every file. In case a file gets damaged, its checksum won't match what ZFS has as a record for it, therefore the damaged copy will be replaced with a good one from a different hard disk. As this happens right away, there's no risk for any of your files to ever get damaged.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Semi-dedicated Servers

You won't experience any kind of silent data corruption issues if you purchase one of our semi-dedicated server solutions since the ZFS file system that we employ on our cloud hosting platform uses checksums to make sure that all of your files are intact all of the time. A checksum is a unique digital fingerprint that is given to each and every file saved on a server. As we store all content on multiple drives simultaneously, the same file uses the same checksum on all drives and what ZFS does is that it compares the checksums between the different drives right away. 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 probability of the damaged copy to be synchronized on the rest of the hard disks. ZFS is the sole file system you can find 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 hard drives.