No Data Corruption & Data Integrity
What exactly does the 'No Data Corruption & Data Integrity' slogan mean to every Internet hosting account owner?
Data corruption is the damage of information caused by various hardware or software problems. When a file is corrupted, it will no longer work as it should, so an app will not start or will give errors, a text file could be partially or completely unreadable, an archive file will be impossible to open and then unpack, etc. Silent data corruption is the process of information getting harmed without any acknowledgement by the system or an admin, that makes it a significant problem for website hosting servers as fails are more likely to occur on larger in size hard disks where large volumes of information are located. If a drive is part of a RAID and the data on it is copied on other drives for redundancy, it's likely that the bad file will be treated as a standard one and it'll be copied on all drives, making the harm permanent. A huge number of the file systems which operate on web servers these days often are not able to detect corrupted files in real time or they need time-consuming system checks through which the server isn't operational.
No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Web Hosting
The integrity of the data which you upload to your new web hosting account shall be guaranteed by the ZFS file system that we work with on our cloud platform. Most of the internet hosting providers, like our firm, use multiple HDDs to keep content and considering that the drives work in a RAID, identical data is synchronized between the drives all the time. If a file on a drive becomes corrupted for some reason, however, it is more than likely that it will be duplicated on the other drives because alternative file systems do not feature special checks for that. Unlike them, ZFS applies a digital fingerprint, or a checksum, for each file. In case a file gets corrupted, its checksum won't match what ZFS has as a record for it, and the damaged copy will be replaced with a good one from another drive. Since this happens right away, there is no possibility for any of your files to ever get damaged.