Data corruption is the accidental change of a file or the loss of info that often occurs during reading or writing. The reason may be hardware or software fail, and for that reason, a file could become partially or fully corrupted, so it will no longer function correctly as its bits shall be scrambled or missing. An image file, for example, will no longer show a true image, but a random combination of colors, an archive will be impossible to unpack since its content will be unreadable, etc. When such an issue appears and it is not identified by the system or by an admin, the data will get corrupted silently and when this happens on a drive that's part of a RAID array where the info is synced between different drives, the corrupted file will be duplicated on all of the other drives and the damage will become long term. Numerous commonly used file systems either do not feature real-time checks or do not have high quality ones that can detect a problem before the damage is done, so silent data corruption is a common issue on internet hosting servers where substantial amounts of info are stored.

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If you host your Internet sites in a hosting account from our firm, you don't need to worry about any of your data ever getting corrupted. We can guarantee that as our cloud hosting platform works with the cutting-edge 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 numerous NVMe drives. A lot of file systems synchronize the files between the different drives using this type of a setup, but there is no real warranty that a file won't be corrupted. This can happen at the time of the writing process on any drive and after that a bad copy may be copied on all other drives. What makes the difference on our platform is that ZFS analyzes the checksums of all files on all drives in real time and when a corrupted file is found, it is swapped with a good copy with the correct checksum from another drive. By doing this, your information will continue to be undamaged no matter what, even if an entire drive fails.

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