Data corruption is the damage of info caused by various software or hardware problems. Once a file gets damaged, it will no longer work as it should, so an application will not start or will give errors, a text file shall be partially or fully unreadable, an archive will be impossible to open then unpack, etc. Silent data corruption is the process of info getting harmed without any acknowledgement by the system or an administrator, which makes it a significant problem for hosting servers as problems are much more likely to occur on larger in size hard drives where considerable volumes of information are kept. If a drive is part of a RAID and the information on it is duplicated on other drives for redundancy, it's more than likely that the damaged file will be treated as an undamaged 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 locate corrupted files in real time or they need time-consuming system checks through which the server isn't functioning.

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If you host your websites in a cloud website hosting account from our firm, you will not need to worry about any of your data ever getting damaged. We can guarantee that as our cloud hosting platform employs the leading-edge ZFS file system. The aforementioned is the only file system that uses checksums, or unique digital fingerprints, for each and every file. All of the info that you upload will be stored in a RAID i.e. simultaneously on numerous SSD drives. All file systems synchronize the files between the different drives with this type of a setup, but there is no real guarantee that a file won't be corrupted. This can occur during the writing process on any drive and then a damaged copy may be copied on the rest of the drives. What makes the difference on our platform is that ZFS examines the checksums of all files on all of the drives instantly and in case a corrupted file is discovered, it's substituted with a good copy with the correct checksum from some other drive. By doing this, your info will stay unharmed no matter what, even if a whole drive fails.

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You will not need to deal with any kind of silent data corruption issues should you obtain one of our semi-dedicated server solutions since the ZFS file system that we employ on our cloud hosting platform uses checksums in order to guarantee that all of the files are undamaged all the time. A checksum is a unique digital fingerprint that is assigned to each and every file saved on a server. Due to the fact that we store all content on a number of drives at the same time, the same file uses the same checksum on all the drives and what ZFS does is that it compares the checksums between the different drives right away. In the event that it detects that a file is corrupted and its checksum is different from what it has to be, it replaces that file with a healthy copy without delay, avoiding any chance of the damaged copy to be synchronized on the remaining hard disks. ZFS is the sole file system on the market which uses checksums, which makes it much more dependable than other file systems that are not able to identify silent data corruption and copy bad files across hard drives.