Data corruption is the unintentional change of a file or the loss of info which usually occurs during reading or writing. The reason could be hardware or software failure, and as a result, a file could become partially or completely corrupted, so it'll no longer function properly because its bits shall be scrambled or lacking. An image file, for instance, 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. In the event that this kind of an issue occurs and it isn't identified by the system or by an admin, the data will get corrupted silently and in case this happens on a disk drive that's a part of a RAID array where the data is synchronized between different drives, the corrupted file shall be duplicated on all the other drives and the harm will be long term. Numerous frequently used file systems either do not have real-time checks or do not have good ones that can detect a problem before the damage is done, so silent data corruption is a rather common issue on internet hosting servers where large volumes of information are kept.

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If you host your sites in a cloud web hosting account from our firm, you will not need to worry about your data ever getting damaged. We can guarantee that as our cloud hosting platform employs the amazing ZFS file system. The latter is the only file system that works with checksums, or unique digital fingerprints, for each file. All data that you upload will be saved in a RAID i.e. simultaneously on many NVMe drives. All of the file systems synchronize the files between the different drives using this type of a setup, but there's no real guarantee that a file will not be corrupted. This may occur during the writing process on each drive and afterwards a damaged copy can be copied on the other drives. What is different on our platform is that ZFS compares the checksums of all files on all drives immediately and when a corrupted file is found, it's replaced with a good copy with the correct checksum from another drive. This way, your info will remain unharmed no matter what, even if a whole drive fails.

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Your semi-dedicated server account will be shielded from silent data corruption since all our storage servers make use of the effective ZFS file system. What makes the latter unique is that it uses checksums, or digital identifiers, so as to verify the integrity of each file. When you upload content to your account, it'll be placed on several redundant drives operating in a RAID i.e. the files will be the same on all drives. All the copies of a specific file will have the same checksum on all drives and ZFS will compare the checksums of the copies in real time, so if it detects a mismatch, that would indicate that one of the copies is damaged, it'll replace that file with a healthy copy from one of the other disks. Even if there's an unforeseen power loss, the data on the servers won't get corrupted and there won't be any need for a time-consuming system check that other file systems perform after some malfunction, prolonging the time needed for the server to get back online. ZFS is the only file system which can really protect your content from silent data corruption.