Data corruption is the damage of data due to various software or hardware problems. When a file is damaged, it will no longer work accurately, so an application will not start or will give errors, a text file could be partially or entirely unreadable, an archive will be impossible to open then unpack, etc. Silent data corruption is the process of data getting harmed without any identification by the system or an administrator, that makes it a serious problem for web hosting servers as problems are more likely to occur on bigger hard disk drives where significant volumes of information are kept. In case a drive is a part of a RAID and the information on it is replicated on other drives for redundancy, it is likely that the bad file will be treated as a regular one and it will be copied on all drives, making the harm permanent. Lots of the file systems which run on web servers today often are not able to locate corrupted files in real time or they need time-consuming system checks through which the server isn't functioning.
No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Cloud Website Hosting
If you host your websites in a cloud website hosting account with our company, you do not have to worry about your data ever getting damaged. We can guarantee that as our cloud hosting platform works with the advanced ZFS file system. The aforementioned is the only file system that works with checksums, or unique digital fingerprints, for each file. All information that you upload will be kept in a RAID i.e. simultaneously on many NVMe drives. Many file systems synchronize the files between the separate drives using such a setup, but there is no real warranty that a file will not be corrupted. This may occur throughout the writing process on any drive and after that a corrupted copy may be copied on the rest of the drives. What is different on our platform is that ZFS compares the checksums of all files on all the drives instantly and in case a corrupted file is identified, it is swapped with a good copy with the correct checksum from some other drive. In this way, your info will remain undamaged no matter what, even if an entire drive fails.
No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Semi-dedicated Hosting
You won't need to deal with any kind of silent data corruption issues if you buy one of our semi-dedicated hosting solutions because the ZFS file system that we take advantage of on our cloud hosting platform uses checksums in order to guarantee that all of your files are undamaged at all times. A checksum is a unique digital fingerprint that is given to each and every file stored on a server. Because we store all content on a number of drives simultaneously, 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 possibility of the bad copy to be synchronized on the remaining hard drives. ZFS is the only file system on the market that uses checksums, which makes it far superior to other file systems which are unable to detect silent data corruption and duplicate bad files across drives.