Data corruption is the damage of info caused by various software or hardware problems. Once a file is corrupted, it will no longer work correctly, so an app will not start or shall give errors, a text file shall be partially or entirely unreadable, an archive file will be impossible to open and unpack, etc. Silent data corruption is the process of data getting damaged without any acknowledgement by the system or an admin, which makes it a significant problem for hosting servers as fails are more likely to happen on bigger hard disks where vast volumes of information are located. When a drive is part of a RAID and the data on it is copied on other drives for redundancy, it is more than likely that the damaged file will be treated as a good one and it'll be duplicated on all of the drives, making the damage permanent. A huge number of the file systems that run on web servers these days often are not able to discover corrupted files right away or they need time-consuming system checks through which the server isn't operational.
No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Shared Website Hosting
The integrity of the data which you upload to your new shared website hosting account will be ensured by the ZFS file system which we work with on our cloud platform. The majority of internet hosting service providers, including our company, use multiple hard drives to keep content and considering that the drives work in a RAID, the exact same information is synchronized between the drives all of the time. In case a file on a drive is damaged for some reason, however, it is more than likely that it will be copied on the other drives because alternative file systems don't include special checks for this. In contrast to them, ZFS works with a digital fingerprint, or a checksum, for each and every file. In the event that a file gets damaged, its checksum will not match what ZFS has as a record for it, so the damaged copy will be replaced with a good one from a different hard drive. As this happens immediately, there's no possibility for any of your files to ever get corrupted.
No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Semi-dedicated Hosting
You won't need to deal with any kind of silent data corruption issues whatsoever if you acquire one of our semi-dedicated hosting packages due to the fact that the ZFS file system that we use on our cloud hosting platform uses checksums to guarantee that all of the files are undamaged all the time. A checksum is a unique digital fingerprint which is allotted to each and every file kept on a server. As we store all content on multiple drives simultaneously, the same file has the same checksum on all of the drives and what ZFS does is that it compares the checksums between the different drives right away. When 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 right away, avoiding any probability of the bad copy to be synchronized on the remaining hard disks. ZFS is the only file system you can find that uses checksums, which makes it much more reliable than other file systems which are not able to detect silent data corruption and copy bad files across drives.