Data corruption is the accidental modification of a file or the losing of information which often occurs during reading or writing. The reason can be hardware or software malfunction, and due to this fact, a file can become partially or entirely corrupted, so it will no longer function correctly because its bits shall be scrambled or missing. An image file, for instance, will no longer display an actual image, but a random mix of colors, an archive will be impossible to unpack because its content will be unreadable, etc. In the event that this kind of an issue occurs and it isn't identified by the system or by an administrator, the data will become corrupted silently and when this happens on a drive which is part of a RAID array where the data is synchronized between various different drives, the corrupted file will be duplicated on all the other drives and the harm will be long term. A large number of widely used file systems either don't offer real-time checks or don't have good ones which can detect a problem before the damage is done, so silent data corruption is a very common problem on internet hosting servers where huge volumes of data are kept.

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In case you host your Internet sites in a cloud hosting account from our firm, you won't have to worry about any of your data ever getting corrupted. We can guarantee that because our cloud hosting platform uses the cutting-edge ZFS file system. The latter is the only file system which uses checksums, or unique digital fingerprints, for each file. Any info that you upload will be kept in a RAID i.e. simultaneously on numerous NVMe drives. A lot of file systems synchronize the files between the separate drives using such a setup, but there is no real warranty that a file will not get corrupted. This could happen during the writing process on each drive and afterwards a damaged copy can be copied on the rest of the drives. What is different on our platform is that ZFS compares the checksums of all files on all the drives in real time and when a corrupted file is located, it's replaced with a good copy with the correct checksum from another drive. This way, your data will remain undamaged no matter what, even if an entire drive fails.

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