Data corruption is the accidental transformation of a file or the losing of info which often occurs during reading or writing. The reason could be hardware or software failure, and due to this fact, a file may become partially or entirely corrupted, so it will no longer work as it should as its bits shall be scrambled or lost. An image file, for instance, will no longer display an actual image, but a random combination of colors, an archive will be impossible to unpack because its content will be unreadable, etcetera. In case this kind of an issue appears and it's not found by the system or by an administrator, the data will become corrupted silently and if this happens on a disk drive that's a part of a RAID array where the data is synchronized between various different drives, the corrupted file will be replicated on all other drives and the damage will become long term. A number of popular file systems either don't feature real-time checks or don't have high quality ones that can detect an issue before the damage is done, so silent data corruption is a very common matter on web hosting servers where substantial amounts of information are stored.
No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Cloud Hosting
The integrity of the data which you upload to your new cloud hosting account will be ensured by the ZFS file system that we employ on our cloud platform. Most internet hosting suppliers, like our company, use multiple HDDs to keep content and considering that the drives work in a RAID, identical information is synchronized between the drives at all times. In case a file on a drive becomes corrupted for some reason, yet, it's likely that it will be copied on the other drives as other file systems do not feature special checks for this. In contrast to them, ZFS works with a digital fingerprint, or a checksum, for each file. In case a file gets damaged, its checksum will not match what ZFS has as a record for it, which means that the bad copy shall be substituted with a good one from another disk drive. As this happens right away, there is no possibility for any of your files to ever be corrupted.
No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Semi-dedicated Servers