No Data Corruption & Data Integrity
Find what ‘No Data Corruption & Data Integrity’ means for the info as part of your website hosting account.
Data corruption is the unintentional modification of a file or the loss of information that often occurs during reading or writing. The reason could be hardware or software failure, and as a result, a file may become partially or entirely corrupted, so it will no longer function properly as its bits shall be scrambled or missing. An image file, for instance, will no longer present a real image, but a random combination of colors, an archive will be impossible to unpack as its content will be unreadable, and so on. In the event that such a problem occurs and it is not found by the system or by an admin, the data will become corrupted silently and in case this happens on a disk drive which is part of a RAID array where the data is synchronized between various different drives, the corrupted file shall be copied on all the other drives and the damage will become permanent. Many commonly used file systems either don't have real-time checks or do not have high quality ones which can detect an issue before the damage is done, so silent data corruption is a rather common matter on internet hosting servers where substantial amounts of data are kept.
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No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Cloud Website Hosting
We've resolved the matter of silent data corruption on all our
cloud website hosting servers by using the hi-tech Z file system, or ZFS. The latter is better than other file systems because it is the only one in existence which checks all files right away by using a checksum - a digital identifier that is unique for each and every file. When you upload content to your account, it'll be stored on several NVMe drives and continually synced between them for redundancy. ZFS regularly analyzes the checksum of all files and in the event that any file is detected as corrupted, it's replaced immediately with a good copy from some other disk. As this happens in real time, there is no risk that a damaged file may remain or may be duplicated on the remaining NVMes. ZFS needs plenty of physical memory to perform the real-time checks and the benefit of our cloud website hosting platform is that we work with multiple very powerful servers working together. In case you host your websites with us, your info will be intact no matter what.