Data corruption is the damage of info caused by various software or hardware problems. Once a file gets corrupted, it will no longer function accurately, so an app will not start or will give errors, a text file can be partially or completely unreadable, an archive file will be impossible to open and unpack, etc. Silent data corruption is the process of info getting damaged without any identification by the system or an admin, which makes it a significant problem for web hosting servers as failures are more likely to happen on larger in size hard disk drives where considerable volumes of information are located. If a drive is a part of a RAID and the info on it is replicated on other drives for redundancy, it's very likely that the bad file will be treated as a standard one and will be duplicated on all drives, making the harm permanent. A lot of the file systems which operate on web servers these days often cannot locate corrupted files right away or they need time-consuming system checks during which the server isn't working.
No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Cloud Hosting
The integrity of the data which you upload to your new cloud hosting account will be guaranteed by the ZFS file system which we employ on our cloud platform. The majority of internet hosting providers, like our firm, use multiple hard drives to store content and considering that the drives work in a RAID, identical information is synchronized between the drives all the time. If a file on a drive is damaged for whatever reason, however, it's very likely that it will be duplicated on the other drives as other file systems don't have special checks for this. In contrast to them, ZFS applies a digital fingerprint, or a checksum, for every file. In case a file gets corrupted, its checksum will not match what ZFS has as a record for it, so the bad copy will be swapped with a good one from another hard disk. Due to the fact that this happens right away, there's no risk for any of your files to ever get corrupted.
No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Semi-dedicated Servers
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 plans due to the fact that the ZFS file system that we work with on our cloud hosting platform uses checksums to ensure that all of your files are undamaged all of the time. A checksum is a unique digital fingerprint which is assigned to each and every file kept 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 in real time. 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 possibility of the corrupted copy to be synchronized on the remaining hard disks. ZFS is the sole file system you can get that uses checksums, which makes it far superior to other file systems which are unable to detect silent data corruption and copy bad files across hard drives.