Data corruption is the accidental modification of a file or the losing of info which usually occurs during reading or writing. The reason may be hardware or software failure, and consequently, a file may become partially or completely corrupted, so it'll no longer function correctly since its bits will be scrambled or lacking. An image file, for instance, will no longer present a true image, but a random combination of colors, an archive will be impossible to unpack as its content will be unreadable, and so on. If this kind of an issue appears and it isn't identified by the system or by an admin, the data will get corrupted silently and when this happens on a disk drive that is a part of a RAID array where the data is synchronized between various different drives, the corrupted file shall be reproduced on all of the other drives and the damage will become permanent. Numerous frequently used file systems either do not feature real-time checks or don't have good ones that will detect an issue before the damage is done, so silent data corruption is a very common issue on internet hosting servers where huge amounts of information are kept.
No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Cloud Website Hosting
The integrity of the data that you upload to your new cloud website hosting account shall be ensured by the ZFS file system that we take advantage of on our cloud platform. The vast majority of web hosting providers, including our firm, use multiple hard disks to store content and since the drives work in a RAID, the same info is synchronized between the drives at all times. When a file on a drive gets corrupted for whatever reason, however, it's very likely that it will be duplicated on the other drives since alternative file systems don't offer special checks for this. Unlike them, ZFS employs a digital fingerprint, or a checksum, for every single file. If a file gets corrupted, its checksum won't match what ZFS has as a record for it, and the damaged copy will be swapped with a good one from a different drive. Since this happens instantly, there is no possibility for any of your files to ever get damaged.
No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Semi-dedicated Hosting
You won't need to deal with any silent data corruption issues whatsoever if you purchase one of our semi-dedicated hosting packages as the ZFS file system that we take advantage of on our cloud hosting platform uses checksums to ensure that all files are intact at all times. A checksum is a unique digital fingerprint that is allotted to each and every file stored on a server. Because we store all content on a number of drives at the same time, the same file uses the same checksum on all drives and what ZFS does is that it compares the checksums between the different drives right away. In case it detects that a file is corrupted and its checksum is different from what it has to be, it replaces that file with a healthy copy without delay, avoiding any probability of the corrupted copy to be synchronized on the remaining drives. ZFS is the only file system available on the market which uses checksums, which makes it far superior to other file systems that are unable to identify silent data corruption and duplicate bad files across drives.