Data corruption is the unintended transformation of a file or the loss of info that often occurs during reading or writing. The reason can be hardware or software fail, and for that reason, a file can become partially or completely corrupted, so it will no longer function properly since its bits shall be scrambled or missing. An image file, for instance, will no longer present an authentic image, but a random combination of colors, an archive will be impossible to unpack as its content will be unreadable, etc. In case this kind of an issue occurs and it's not found by the system or by an administrator, the data will be corrupted silently and in case this happens on a disk drive which is part of a RAID array where the data is synchronized between various different drives, the corrupted file will be replicated on all other drives and the damage will be permanent. Numerous commonly used file systems either do not offer real-time checks or don't have high quality ones that can detect an issue before the damage is done, so silent data corruption is a very common issue on internet hosting servers where large amounts of info are kept.

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If you host your websites in a hosting account with our company, you will not have to worry about your data ever getting damaged. We can ensure that as our cloud hosting platform works with the advanced ZFS file system. The aforementioned is the only file system which uses checksums, or unique digital fingerprints, for each and every file. All the info that you upload will be saved in a RAID i.e. simultaneously on a number of SSD drives. All the file systems synchronize the files between the separate drives using this kind of a setup, but there is no real warranty that a file will not get corrupted. This could occur at the time of the writing process on each drive and then a corrupted copy can be copied on the rest of the drives. What is different on our platform is that ZFS analyzes the checksums of all files on all drives instantly and when a corrupted file is located, it's replaced with a good copy with the correct checksum from some other drive. In this way, your info will stay unharmed no matter what, even if an entire drive fails.

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Your semi-dedicated hosting account will be resistant to silent data corruption since all our storage servers employ the innovative ZFS file system. What makes the latter unique is that it employs checksums, or digital identifiers, so as to guarantee the integrity of each and every file. When you upload content to your account, it will be kept on several redundant drives being employed in a RAID i.e. the files will be the same on all disk drives. All of the copies of a given file will have the same checksum on all hard drives and ZFS will compare the checksums of the duplicates in real time, so if it discovers a mismatch, that would indicate that one of the copies is corrupted, it will replace that file with a healthy copy from one of the other disks. Even if there's an unexpected blackout, the data on the servers will not get corrupted and there will not be any need for a time-consuming system check which other file systems perform following some malfunction, lengthening the time needed for the server to get back online. ZFS is the only file system which can truly protect your content from silent data corruption.