Data corruption is the unintended transformation of a file or the losing of info that often occurs during reading or writing. The reason may be hardware or software fail, and because of this, a file could become partially or fully corrupted, so it will no longer function properly as its bits will be scrambled or missing. An image file, for instance, will no longer present a real image, but a random combination of colors, an archive will be impossible to unpack since its content will be unreadable, etc. In the event that such an issue occurs and it is not noticed by the system or by an administrator, the data will get corrupted silently and if this happens on a disk drive which is part of a RAID array where the info is synced between different drives, the corrupted file will be replicated on all other drives and the damage will be permanent. A large number of commonly used file systems either don't offer real-time checks or don't have high quality ones that will detect an issue before the damage is done, so silent data corruption is a rather common problem on hosting servers where large volumes of info are stored.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Cloud Web Hosting

If you host your Internet sites in a cloud web hosting account with our company, you do not need to worry about your data ever getting corrupted. We can guarantee that due to the fact that our cloud hosting platform uses the state-of-the-art ZFS file system. The aforementioned is the only file system that uses checksums, or unique digital fingerprints, for each and every file. All of the info that you upload will be saved in a RAID i.e. simultaneously on multiple NVMes. All of the file systems synchronize the files between the different drives with this kind of a setup, but there's no real guarantee that a file won't get corrupted. This can happen during the writing process on each drive and afterwards a bad copy may be copied on all other drives. What is different on our platform is the fact that ZFS compares the checksums of all files on all drives right away and in the event that a corrupted file is discovered, it's substituted with a good copy with the correct checksum from some other drive. In this way, your information will continue to be unharmed no matter what, even if an entire drive fails.

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Your semi-dedicated hosting account will be shielded from silent data corruption since all our storage servers make use of the state-of-the-art ZFS file system. What makes the aforementioned unique is that it employs checksums, or digital identifiers, to ensure the integrity of each file. When you upload content to your account, it'll be stored on a couple of redundant drives operating in a RAID i.e. the files will be the same on all disk drives. All the copies of a particular file will have the same checksum on all hard disks and ZFS will compare the checksums of the duplicates right away, and if it finds a mismatch, which would indicate that one of the copies is corrupted, it'll swap that file with a good copy from one of the other disks. Even if there's a sudden power loss, the data on the servers will not get corrupted and there won't be any need for a time-consuming system check that other file systems perform following some failure, extending the time needed for the server to go back online. ZFS is the only file system that can truly protect your content from silent data corruption.