Data Corruption

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Data corruption is the damage of info caused by various software or hardware problems. When a file gets damaged, it will no longer function as it should, so an application will not start or shall give errors, a text file shall be partially or fully unreadable, an archive 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 hosting servers as fails are more likely to happen on larger in size hard disk drives where large volumes of info are kept. If a drive is a part of a RAID and the info on it is replicated on other drives for redundancy, it is very likely that the bad file will be treated as an ordinary one and it will be copied on all the drives, making the damage permanent. A lot of the file systems which run on web servers today often cannot locate corrupted files right away or they need time-consuming system checks through which the server is not functioning.

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 that we take advantage of on our cloud platform. The vast majority of internet hosting service providers, including our firm, use multiple HDDs to keep content and considering that the drives work in a RAID, the exact same data is synchronized between the drives at all times. When a file on a drive gets corrupted for whatever reason, yet, it is very likely that it will be copied on the other drives because alternative file systems don't have special checks for this. In contrast to them, ZFS works with a digital fingerprint, or a checksum, for each file. In case a file gets corrupted, its checksum will not match what ZFS has as a record for it, which means that the damaged copy shall be substituted with a good one from a different hard drive. Since this happens immediately, there is no possibility for any of your files to ever get damaged.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Semi-dedicated Servers

You won't need to deal with any kind of silent data corruption issues whatsoever if you obtain one of our semi-dedicated server plans due to the fact that the ZFS file system that we employ on our cloud hosting platform uses checksums to make sure that all the files are intact all the time. A checksum is a unique digital fingerprint that is given to each and every file stored on a server. Due to the fact that we store all content on a number of drives at the same time, 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 right away. 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 right away, avoiding any possibility of the damaged copy to be synchronized on the remaining hard drives. ZFS is the sole file system on the market that uses checksums, which makes it much more reliable than other file systems that are unable to detect silent data corruption and copy bad files across hard drives.