Data corruption is the accidental change of a file or the losing of info that usually occurs during reading or writing. The reason could be hardware or software malfunction, and because of this, a file can become partially or fully corrupted, so it'll no longer work properly as its bits shall be scrambled or missing. An image file, for example, will no longer present a true image, but a random mix of colors, an archive will be impossible to unpack because its content will be unreadable, etcetera. In the event that this kind of an issue occurs and it is not found by the system or by an administrator, the data will get corrupted silently and in case this happens on a disk drive that is part of a RAID array where the information is synced between different drives, the corrupted file shall be reproduced on all other drives and the harm will become long term. Many popular file systems either do not offer 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 internet hosting servers where huge amounts of information are stored.
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If you host your sites in a shared website hosting account from our firm, you do not have to worry about any of your data ever getting corrupted. We can guarantee that due to the fact that our cloud hosting platform works with the leading-edge ZFS file system. The aforementioned is the only file system that uses checksums, or unique digital fingerprints, for every single file. Any kind of info that you upload will be stored in a RAID i.e. simultaneously on a large number of NVMe drives. A lot of file systems synchronize the files between the separate drives with such a setup, but there's no real guarantee that a file won't be corrupted. This can happen throughout the writing process on any drive and afterwards a corrupted copy may be copied on the other drives. What is different on our platform is the fact that ZFS examines the checksums of all files on all of the drives instantly and in case a corrupted file is discovered, it is swapped with a good copy with the correct checksum from another drive. By doing this, your information will remain intact no matter what, even if an entire drive fails.
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You will not have to deal with any kind of silent data corruption issues whatsoever in case you buy one of our semi-dedicated server solutions since the ZFS file system that we use 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 assigned to each and every file kept on a server. Since 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. If 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 without delay, avoiding any possibility of the bad copy to be synchronized on the rest of the hard drives. ZFS is the only file system out there which uses checksums, which makes it much more dependable than other file systems which are unable to detect silent data corruption and copy bad files across drives.