Data corruption is the unintentional transformation of a file or the loss of info that usually occurs during reading or writing. The reason can be hardware or software fail, and due to this fact, a file can become partially or fully corrupted, so it'll no longer work properly since its bits will be scrambled or lost. An image file, for example, will no longer display an authentic image, but a random mix of colors, an archive will be impossible to unpack for the reason that its content will be unreadable, etc. In the event that such a problem occurs and it's not found by the system or by an administrator, the data will become corrupted silently and if this happens on a drive which is a part of a RAID array where the information is synchronized between different drives, the corrupted file shall be copied on all other drives and the damage will become permanent. A number of widely used file systems either don't 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 matter on web hosting servers where huge amounts of information are kept.

No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Cloud Web Hosting

The integrity of the data which you upload to your new cloud web hosting account will be guaranteed by the ZFS file system that we work with on our cloud platform. Most internet hosting service providers, including our company, use multiple hard drives to keep content and because the drives work in a RAID, exactly the same data is synchronized between the drives all the time. In case a file on a drive becomes damaged for whatever reason, however, it's more than likely that it will be copied on the other drives as alternative file systems don't feature special checks for that. In contrast to them, ZFS works with a digital fingerprint, or a checksum, for every single file. If a file gets damaged, its checksum will not match what ZFS has as a record for it, so the damaged copy will be swapped with a good one from a different hard drive. Due to the fact that this happens immediately, there is no possibility for any of your files to ever get corrupted.