No Data Corruption & Data Integrity
Find out what No Data Corruption & Data Integrity is and how it could be beneficial for the files inside your web hosting account.
Data corruption is the unintended transformation of a file or the losing of information which often occurs during reading or writing. The reason may be hardware or software fail, and as a result, a file can become partially or completely corrupted, so it will no longer function correctly since its bits shall be scrambled or lost. An image file, for instance, will no longer show an actual image, but a random combination of colors, an archive will be impossible to unpack since its content will be unreadable, etc. If this kind of an issue occurs and it's not noticed by the system or by an administrator, the data will become corrupted silently and in case this happens on a disk drive that's part of a RAID array where the info is synced between different drives, the corrupted file will be copied on all other drives and the damage will become permanent. A large number of widespread file systems either don't offer real-time checks or don't have high quality ones which can detect an issue before the damage is done, so silent data corruption is a very common problem on internet hosting servers where large volumes of information are kept.
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No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Hosting
In case you host your sites in a
hosting account with our company, you will not have to worry about your data ever getting damaged. We can ensure that due to the fact that our cloud hosting platform employs the revolutionary ZFS file system. The latter is the only file system that works with checksums, or unique digital fingerprints, for each and every file. All the information that you upload will be kept in a RAID i.e. simultaneously on many different NVMes. All file systems synchronize the files between the different drives using this type of a setup, but there's no real guarantee that a file will not be corrupted. This may occur throughout the writing process on each drive and then a corrupted copy may be copied on the rest of the drives. What is different on our platform is the fact that ZFS examines the checksums of all files on all of the drives right away and in case a corrupted file is found, it's replaced with a good copy with the correct checksum from another drive. In this way, your information will continue to be intact no matter what, even if an entire drive fails.