Data corruption is the damage of data because of various hardware or software failures. After a file gets damaged, it will no longer function as it should, so an app will not start or will give errors, a text file could be partially or entirely unreadable, an archive will be impossible to open and then unpack, etc. Silent data corruption is the process of info getting damaged without any identification by the system or an admin, which makes it a significant problem for hosting servers as problems are very likely to happen on larger in size hard drives where considerable volumes of information are stored. When a drive is part of a RAID and the data on it is replicated on other drives for redundancy, it is likely that the damaged file will be treated as an ordinary one and it will be duplicated on all the drives, making the harm permanent. A huge number of the file systems that operate on web servers nowadays often are unable to find corrupted files right away or they need time-consuming system checks during which the server isn't functioning.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Cloud Web Hosting

If you host your Internet sites in a cloud web hosting account from our firm, you won't have to worry about your data ever getting damaged. We can ensure that since our cloud hosting platform employs the cutting-edge ZFS file system. The aforementioned is the only file system which uses checksums, or unique digital fingerprints, for each and every file. Any kind of info that you upload will be kept in a RAID i.e. simultaneously on a large number of NVMe drives. All file systems synchronize the files between the separate drives using such a setup, but there is no real warranty that a file will not get corrupted. This can happen at the time of the writing process on any drive and then a bad copy can be copied on all other drives. What makes the difference on our platform is the fact that ZFS compares the checksums of all files on all of the drives instantly and when a corrupted file is discovered, it is substituted with a good copy with the correct checksum from some other drive. This way, your information will remain intact no matter what, even if a whole drive fails.

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You will not need to deal with any kind of silent data corruption issues whatsoever if you buy one of our semi-dedicated hosting packages because the ZFS file system that we employ on our cloud hosting platform uses checksums in order to make sure that all of the files are undamaged all of the time. A checksum is a unique digital fingerprint which is allotted to each and every file stored on a server. Because we store all content on multiple drives at the same time, the same file uses the same checksum on all 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 right away, avoiding any probability of the bad copy to be synchronized on the other hard disks. ZFS is the only file system on the market which uses checksums, which makes it much more reliable than other file systems that cannot detect silent data corruption and duplicate bad files across hard drives.