Data corruption is the damage of info due to various hardware or software failures. After a file gets corrupted, it will no longer work accurately, so an application will not start or shall give errors, a text file could be partially or fully unreadable, an archive file will be impossible to open and then unpack, etc. Silent data corruption is the process of data getting harmed without any identification by the system or an administrator, that makes it a serious problem for website hosting servers as failures are more likely to happen on bigger hard disks where vast volumes of information are placed. When a drive is a part of a RAID and the data on it is replicated on other drives for redundancy, it's more than likely that the damaged file will be treated as a regular one and will be copied on all of the drives, making the damage permanent. Lots of the file systems that operate on web servers today often are unable to find corrupted files instantly or they need time-consuming system checks through which the server isn't working.
No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Cloud Hosting
We guarantee the integrity of the data uploaded in every single cloud hosting account which is generated on our cloud platform because we work with the advanced ZFS file system. The aforementioned is the only one that was designed to prevent silent data corruption via a unique checksum for every single file. We will store your info on a large number of NVMe drives that operate in a RAID, so the same files will be accessible on several places simultaneously. ZFS checks the digital fingerprint of all files on all drives in real time and if the checksum of any file differs from what it should be, the file system swaps that file with a healthy copy from a different drive inside the RAID. There's no other file system which uses checksums, so it is easy for data to be silently corrupted and the bad file to be duplicated on all drives over time, but since this can never happen on a server running ZFS, you will not have to worry about the integrity of your data.
No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Semi-dedicated Hosting
You will not have to deal with any kind of silent data corruption issues in case you purchase one of our semi-dedicated hosting packages because the ZFS file system that we work with on our cloud hosting platform uses checksums to make sure that all of the files are intact at all times. A checksum is a unique digital fingerprint which is given to each and every file stored on a server. Due to the fact that we store all content on multiple drives at the same time, the same file has the same checksum on all 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 right away, avoiding any probability of the damaged copy to be synchronized on the remaining hard drives. ZFS is the sole file system you can get which uses checksums, which makes it far superior to other file systems that cannot detect silent data corruption and copy bad files across drives.