Data corruption is the damage of data because of various software or hardware failures. Once a file gets damaged, it will no longer function correctly, so an app will not start or shall give errors, a text file could be partially or entirely unreadable, an archive file will be impossible to open and then unpack, etc. Silent data corruption is the process of info getting damaged without any acknowledgement by the system or an administrator, that makes it a significant problem for hosting servers as fails are more likely to occur on bigger hard disk drives where significant volumes of info are stored. In case a drive is a part of a RAID and the data on it is duplicated on other drives for redundancy, it's more than likely that the damaged file will be treated as a regular one and it will be copied on all of the drives, making the harm permanent. A huge number of the file systems that operate on web servers nowadays 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 ensured by the ZFS file system that we take advantage of on our cloud platform. Most web hosting service providers, including our firm, use multiple hard drives to store content and because the drives work in a RAID, the exact same data is synchronized between the drives all of the time. When a file on a drive gets damaged for some reason, however, it is likely that it will be duplicated on the other drives as other file systems don't have special checks for this. In contrast to them, ZFS employs a digital fingerprint, or a checksum, for every single file. In case a file gets corrupted, its checksum won't match what ZFS has as a record for it, which means that the bad copy will be swapped with a good one from another hard disk drive. Because this happens immediately, there is no risk for any of your files to ever be damaged.