The process of files being corrupted as a result of some hardware or software failure is known as data corruption and this is among the main problems which hosting companies face since the larger a hard disk drive is and the more info is stored on it, the more likely it is for data to get corrupted. There're several fail-safes, but often the information becomes damaged silently, so neither the file system, nor the administrators notice anything. Thus, a bad file will be handled as a standard one and if the hard drive is part of a RAID, that file will be duplicated on all other drives. Theoretically, this is done for redundancy, but in reality the damage will get even worse. The moment a file gets damaged, it will be partly or completely unreadable, which means that a text file will not be readable, an image file will show a random mix of colors in case it opens at all and an archive shall be impossible to unpack, so you risk sacrificing your content. Although the most frequently used server file systems include various checks, they frequently fail to detect a problem early enough or require a long time period in order to check all the files and the web hosting server will not be operational 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 that we make use of on our cloud platform. Most internet hosting service providers, including our firm, use multiple hard drives to keep content and considering that the drives work in a RAID, exactly the same data is synchronized between the drives all of the time. If a file on a drive gets corrupted for reasons unknown, yet, it's likely that it will be reproduced on the other drives because other file systems do not include special checks for that. Unlike them, ZFS applies a digital fingerprint, or a checksum, for each file. In the event that a file gets damaged, its checksum won't match what ZFS has as a record for it, which means that the bad copy will be replaced with a good one from a different drive. Due to the fact that this happens right away, there is no possibility for any of your files to ever be damaged.