Data corruption is the unintentional modification of a file or the loss of information that usually occurs during reading or writing. The reason may be hardware or software malfunction, and for that reason, a file may become partially or entirely corrupted, so it'll no longer function as it should because its bits will be scrambled or lost. An image file, for example, will no longer present an authentic image, but a random mix of colors, an archive will be impossible to unpack for the reason that its content will be unreadable, and so on. If this kind of an issue appears and it is not identified by the system or by an administrator, the data will become corrupted silently and when this happens on a disk drive that is a part of a RAID array where the information is synchronized between various different drives, the corrupted file shall be duplicated on all other drives and the damage will become long term. Many widespread file systems either don't offer real-time checks or don't have high quality ones which will detect an issue before the damage is done, so silent data corruption is a rather common issue on internet hosting servers where huge amounts of data are stored.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Cloud Hosting

The integrity of the data that you upload to your new cloud hosting account will be ensured by the ZFS file system that we make use of on our cloud platform. The vast majority of internet hosting suppliers, including our company, use multiple hard drives to store content and considering that the drives work in a RAID, the same info is synchronized between the drives at all times. In case a file on a drive gets damaged for whatever reason, yet, it's more than likely that it will be reproduced on the other drives as alternative file systems do not feature special checks for that. Unlike them, ZFS employs a digital fingerprint, or a checksum, for each file. In the event that a file gets damaged, its checksum will not match what ZFS has as a record for it, and the damaged copy will be swapped with a good one from another hard disk. As this happens instantly, there's no risk for any of your files to ever get damaged.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Semi-dedicated Hosting

You won't experience any kind of silent data corruption issues whatsoever if you obtain one of our semi-dedicated hosting packages because the ZFS file system that we take advantage of on our cloud hosting platform uses checksums in order to guarantee that all the files are undamaged at all times. A checksum is a unique digital fingerprint which is assigned to each and every file stored on a server. Due to the fact that we store all content on multiple drives simultaneously, the same file uses the same checksum on all of the drives and what ZFS does is that it compares the checksums between the different drives right away. In the event that 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 right away, avoiding any chance of the corrupted copy to be synchronized on the remaining drives. ZFS is the sole file system you can find which uses checksums, which makes it much more reliable than other file systems that cannot identify silent data corruption and duplicate bad files across drives.