The process of files getting corrupted caused by some hardware or software failure is known as data corruption and this is among the main problems that Internet hosting companies face as the larger a hard drive is and the more information is kept on it, the more likely it is for data to get corrupted. There are different fail-safes, but often the information is corrupted silently, so neither the file system, nor the admins detect a thing. Thus, a bad file will be handled as a regular one and if the hard disk drive is a part of a RAID, the file will be duplicated on all other disk drives. In theory, this is for redundancy, but in reality the damage will get worse. The moment some file gets damaged, it will be partially or fully unreadable, so a text file will not be readable, an image file will display a random combination of colors if it opens at all and an archive shall be impossible to unpack, and you risk sacrificing your website content. Although the most frequently used server file systems have various checks, they frequently fail to detect a problem early enough or require a long time period to be able to check all files and the web server will not be functional for the time being.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Website Hosting

The integrity of the data which you upload to your new website hosting account shall be ensured by the ZFS file system which we take advantage of on our cloud platform. The majority of web hosting service providers, including our company, use multiple hard drives to store content and because the drives work in a RAID, the exact same information is synchronized between the drives all of the time. When a file on a drive is corrupted for reasons unknown, yet, it's very likely that it will be duplicated on the other drives as other file systems do not have special checks for this. Unlike them, ZFS employs a digital fingerprint, or a checksum, for each and every file. In case a file gets damaged, its checksum will not match what ZFS has as a record for it, therefore the damaged copy shall be substituted with a good one from another hard disk drive. Due to the fact that this happens in real time, there is no risk for any of your files to ever get corrupted.