Data corruption is the unintentional transformation of a file or the loss of info which often occurs during reading or writing. The reason could be hardware or software malfunction, and consequently, a file may become partially or entirely corrupted, so it'll no longer function properly because its bits will be scrambled or lost. An image file, for example, will no longer present an actual image, but a random combination of colors, an archive will be impossible to unpack because its content will be unreadable, and so on. In the event that such an issue occurs and it isn't found by the system or by an admin, the data will get corrupted silently and in case this happens on a drive that is part of a RAID array where the info is synchronized between different drives, the corrupted file shall be reproduced on all of the other drives and the harm will become long term. A large number of widely used file systems either do not have real-time checks or don't have good ones which will detect a problem before the damage is done, so silent data corruption is a common matter on hosting servers where large amounts of info are stored.

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If you host your sites in a web hosting account from our firm, you won't need to worry about any of your data ever getting damaged. We can ensure that due to the fact that our cloud hosting platform uses the amazing ZFS file system. The latter is the only file system which works with checksums, or unique digital fingerprints, for each and every file. All of the data that you upload will be stored in a RAID i.e. simultaneously on many SSDs. A lot of file systems synchronize the files between the different drives with this type of a setup, but there's no real guarantee that a file will not get 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 the fact that ZFS compares the checksums of all files on all of the drives instantly and in the event that a corrupted file is discovered, it's substituted with a good copy with the correct checksum from another drive. That way, your info will continue to be unharmed no matter what, even if a whole drive fails.

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Your semi-dedicated server account will be resistant to silent data corruption as all of our storage servers employ the advanced ZFS file system. What makes the latter unique is that it uses checksums, or digital identifiers, to guarantee the integrity of each and every file. When you upload content to your account, it will be stored on several redundant drives being employed in a RAID i.e. the files shall be the same across all disk drives. All of the copies of a specific file will have the same checksum on all hard disks and ZFS will compare the checksums of the copies right away, and if it discovers a mismatch, that will indicate that one of the copies is corrupted, it'll substitute that file with a good copy from one of the other disks. Even if there's an unforeseen power failure, the data on the servers will not be corrupted and there will not be any need for a time-consuming system check which other file systems perform after some breakdown, lengthening the time needed for the server to return online. ZFS is the sole file system which can truly protect your content from silent data corruption.