Data corruption is the unintentional transformation of a file or the loss of information that usually occurs during reading or writing. The reason could be hardware or software fail, and due to this fact, a file may become partially or fully corrupted, so it'll no longer function correctly because its bits will be scrambled or lost. An image file, for example, will no longer show a true image, but a random combination of colors, an archive will be impossible to unpack because its content will be unreadable, etc. If this kind of an issue appears and it is not noticed by the system or by an administrator, the data will become corrupted silently and when this happens on a drive that is a part of a RAID array where the information is synced between various different drives, the corrupted file shall be replicated on all of the other drives and the damage will become long term. A number of commonly used file systems either don't feature real-time checks or do not have high quality ones that can detect a problem before the damage is done, so silent data corruption is a rather common matter on internet hosting servers where huge amounts of info are kept.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Hosting

The integrity of the data which you upload to your new hosting account will be ensured by the ZFS file system that we take advantage of on our cloud platform. The majority of web hosting providers, including our firm, use multiple hard disk drives to keep content and since the drives work in a RAID, the same data is synchronized between the drives at all times. When a file on a drive gets corrupted for some reason, yet, it's likely that it will be duplicated on the other drives since alternative file systems don't feature special checks for this. In contrast to them, ZFS works with a digital fingerprint, or a checksum, for every single file. If a file gets damaged, its checksum will not match what ZFS has as a record for it, therefore the bad copy shall be substituted with a good one from a different disk drive. As this happens in real time, there is no possibility for any of your files to ever be corrupted.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Semi-dedicated Servers

Your semi-dedicated server account will be shielded from silent data corruption as all our storage servers employ the state-of-the-art ZFS file system. What makes the latter unique is that it employs checksums, or digital identifiers, in order to verify the integrity of each file. When you upload content to your account, it will be saved on several redundant drives in a RAID i.e. the files shall be the same across all disk drives. All copies of a particular file will feature the same checksum on all hard disks and ZFS will compare the checksums of the duplicates quickly, so if it finds a mismatch, which will indicate that one of the copies is damaged, it will swap that file with a good copy from one of the other disks. Even if there's a sudden power loss, the data on the servers will not get corrupted and there won't be any need for a time-consuming system check which other file systems perform following some malfunction, extending the time needed for the server to get back online. ZFS is the file system which can truly protect your content from silent data corruption.