Data corruption is the unintended change of a file or the loss of information which often occurs during reading or writing. The reason can be hardware or software failure, and because of this, a file could become partially or fully corrupted, so it'll no longer work correctly since its bits shall be scrambled or lost. An image file, for example, will no longer present an accurate image, but a random mix of colors, an archive will be impossible to unpack for the reason that its content will be unreadable, etc. When such a problem occurs and it isn't identified by the system or by an administrator, the data will be corrupted silently and if this happens on a drive that's part of a RAID array where the info is synchronized between various drives, the corrupted file shall be copied on all other drives and the harm will become permanent. A large number of commonly used file systems either do not offer real-time checks or do not have good ones which can detect a problem before the damage is done, so silent data corruption is a rather common matter on web hosting servers where substantial volumes of data are kept.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Cloud Website Hosting

In case you host your Internet sites in a cloud website hosting account with our firm, you won't need to worry about any of your data ever getting damaged. We can guarantee that due to the fact that our cloud hosting platform employs the state-of-the-art ZFS file system. The aforementioned is the only file system that works with checksums, or unique digital fingerprints, for each and every file. All of the information that you upload will be kept in a RAID i.e. simultaneously on numerous NVMe drives. All the file systems synchronize the files between the separate drives using this type of a setup, but there is no real warranty that a file will not be corrupted. This may happen throughout the writing process on any drive and then a bad copy can be copied on the rest of the drives. What is different on our platform is the fact that ZFS compares the checksums of all files on all the drives live and in the event that a corrupted file is located, it's replaced with a good copy with the correct checksum from another drive. This way, your info will continue to be intact no matter what, even if a whole drive fails.

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Your semi-dedicated hosting account will be protected against silent data corruption since all of our storage servers use the innovative ZFS file system. What makes the aforementioned unique is that it employs checksums, or digital identifiers, so as to guarantee the integrity of every single file. When you upload content to your account, it will be kept on a couple of redundant drives working in a RAID i.e. the files shall be the same on all disk drives. All the copies of a given file will have the same checksum on all hard drives and ZFS will compare the checksums of the copies in real time, so if it finds a mismatch, which would indicate that one of the copies is damaged, it'll swap that file with a healthy copy from one of the other drives. Even if there's an unforeseen power loss, the data on the servers won't become corrupted and there won't be any need for a time-consuming system check that other file systems perform after some malfunction, extending the time needed for the server to return online. ZFS is the file system which can truly protect your content from silent data corruption.