Data corruption is the unintentional transformation of a file or the loss of info that usually occurs during reading or writing. The reason could be hardware or software fail, and for that reason, a file could become partially or completely corrupted, so it will no longer work as it should because its bits shall be scrambled or lacking. An image file, for example, will no longer display an actual image, but a random combination of colors, an archive will be impossible to unpack for the reason that its content will be unreadable, and so on. When this kind of an issue occurs and it's not found by the system or by an admin, the data will be corrupted silently and when this happens on a drive which is a part of a RAID array where the information is synced between various drives, the corrupted file will be copied on all other drives and the harm will be permanent. Numerous widespread file systems either do not offer real-time checks or do not have good ones that can detect an issue before the damage is done, so silent data corruption is a common problem on hosting servers where substantial volumes of information are stored.
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In case you host your Internet sites in a hosting account from our firm, you won't have to worry about your data ever getting damaged. We can guarantee that because our cloud hosting platform employs the leading-edge ZFS file system. The aforementioned is the only file system which works with checksums, or unique digital fingerprints, for every single file. All the information that you upload will be kept in a RAID i.e. simultaneously on multiple NVMes. All of the file systems synchronize the files between the different drives using such a setup, but there is no real guarantee that a file will not be corrupted. This can occur during the writing process on any drive and after that a bad copy can be copied on the rest of the drives. What is different on our platform is the fact that ZFS examines the checksums of all files on all the drives in real time and when a corrupted file is discovered, it's replaced with a good copy with the correct checksum from another drive. In this way, your info will remain undamaged no matter what, even if a whole drive fails.
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You will not have to deal with any silent data corruption issues in case you obtain one of our semi-dedicated server solutions due to the fact that the ZFS file system that we use on our cloud hosting platform uses checksums in order to guarantee that all of your files are intact all the time. A checksum is a unique digital fingerprint that is allotted to each and every file saved on a server. Due to the fact that 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 right away. In the event that 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 corrupted copy to be synchronized on the remaining hard disks. ZFS is the only file system you can get that uses checksums, which makes it much more dependable than other file systems which are unable to identify silent data corruption and duplicate bad files across drives.