Data corruption is the damage of info caused by various software or hardware problems. The moment a file is corrupted, it will no longer work properly, so an application will not start or will give errors, a text file could be partially or entirely unreadable, an archive file will be impossible to open then unpack, etc. Silent data corruption is the process of info getting damaged without any acknowledgement by the system or an administrator, which makes it a serious problem for website hosting servers as fails are more likely to happen on larger hard drives where considerable volumes of information are located. In case a drive is part of a RAID and the data on it is copied on other drives for redundancy, it is more than likely that the damaged file will be treated as a standard one and it'll be copied on all of the drives, making the harm permanent. Lots of the file systems which run on web servers these days often cannot find corrupted files right away or they need time-consuming system checks during which the server is not operational.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Web Hosting

The integrity of the data which you upload to your new web hosting account will be guaranteed by the ZFS file system that we work with on our cloud platform. The majority of web hosting providers, like our firm, use multiple hard disks to keep content and considering that the drives work in a RAID, the same data is synchronized between the drives at all times. If a file on a drive is damaged for whatever reason, yet, it's more than likely that it will be duplicated on the other drives as alternative file systems do not include special checks for this. In contrast to them, ZFS employs a digital fingerprint, or a checksum, for each file. In case a file gets damaged, its checksum will not match what ZFS has as a record for it, which means that the bad copy will be substituted with a good one from a different hard disk. Since this happens immediately, there's no risk for any of your files to ever be damaged.