Data corruption is the unintentional transformation of a file or the loss of info that often occurs during reading or writing. The reason could be hardware or software failure, and consequently, a file could become partially or fully corrupted, so it will no longer work as it should because its bits will be scrambled or lost. An image file, for instance, will no longer display an authentic image, but a random mix of colors, an archive will be impossible to unpack as its content will be unreadable, etc. In the event that such an issue appears and it's not found by the system or by an administrator, the data will be corrupted silently and when this happens on a disk drive that's a part of a RAID array where the information is synced between various drives, the corrupted file will be reproduced on all the other drives and the harm will become permanent. A large number of widespread file systems either don't have real-time checks or do not have high quality ones which can detect a problem before the damage is done, so silent data corruption is a very common problem on web hosting servers where substantial volumes of information are kept.
No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Cloud Web Hosting
We guarantee the integrity of the information uploaded in every single cloud web hosting account which is made on our cloud platform as we use the advanced ZFS file system. The aforementioned is the only one that was designed to prevent silent data corruption through a unique checksum for every single file. We'll store your information on a number of NVMe drives which function in a RAID, so the same files will exist on several places simultaneously. ZFS checks the digital fingerprint of all the files on all the drives in real time and if the checksum of any file is different from what it has to be, the file system replaces that file with an undamaged copy from another drive from the RAID. No other file system uses checksums, so it is easy for data to be silently damaged and the bad file to be duplicated on all drives over time, but since that can never happen on a server using ZFS, you don't have to worry about the integrity of your data.
No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Semi-dedicated Servers
You won't need to deal with any silent data corruption issues should you buy one of our semi-dedicated server solutions as the ZFS file system that we employ on our cloud hosting platform uses checksums to ensure that all of your files are undamaged at all times. A checksum is a unique digital fingerprint which is assigned to each and every file saved on a server. As we store all content on multiple 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 in real time. In case 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 chance of the damaged copy to be synchronized on the other hard drives. ZFS is the sole file system on the market that uses checksums, which makes it much more dependable than other file systems which are not able to identify silent data corruption and duplicate bad files across drives.