Data corruption is the unintentional modification of a file or the losing of info which often occurs during reading or writing. The reason could be hardware or software fail, and as a consequence, a file could become partially or fully corrupted, so it'll no longer work as it should since its bits will be scrambled or lost. An image file, for instance, will no longer show a true image, but a random mix of colors, an archive will be impossible to unpack for the reason that its content will be unreadable, etc. In the event that such an issue occurs and it is not found by the system or by an admin, the data will be corrupted silently and when this happens on a drive that is part of a RAID array where the data is synced between various different drives, the corrupted file shall be reproduced on all of the other drives and the damage will become long term. A large number of popular file systems either do not offer real-time checks or do not have high quality ones that will detect a problem before the damage is done, so silent data corruption is a very common problem on hosting servers where huge volumes of information are kept.
No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Cloud Website Hosting
We guarantee the integrity of the info uploaded in every cloud website hosting account which is generated on our cloud platform because we work with the advanced ZFS file system. The aforementioned is the only one that was designed to avert silent data corruption through a unique checksum for every single file. We shall store your info on a number of NVMe drives that operate in a RAID, so the same files will be available on several places simultaneously. ZFS checks the digital fingerprint of all files on all of the drives in real time and in the event that the checksum of any file differs from what it should be, the file system swaps that file with an undamaged version from some other drive inside the RAID. There's no other file system which uses checksums, so it's possible for data to get silently damaged and the bad file to be replicated on all drives over time, but since that can never happen on a server using ZFS, you do not have to concern yourself with the integrity of your info.
No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Semi-dedicated Hosting
You won't have to deal with any kind of silent data corruption issues whatsoever if you get one of our semi-dedicated hosting plans because the ZFS file system that we work with on our cloud hosting platform uses checksums in order to make sure that all of the files are undamaged all the time. A checksum is a unique digital fingerprint which is allotted to each and every file stored on a server. Since we store all content on a number of drives at the same time, the same file has the same checksum on all drives and what ZFS does is that it compares the checksums between the different drives in real time. When 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 sole file system you can find which uses checksums, which makes it much more reliable than other file systems which are unable to detect silent data corruption and duplicate bad files across drives.