No Data Corruption & Data Integrity
Find out what No Data Corruption & Data Integrity is and how it can be good for the files inside your website hosting account.
Data corruption is the damage of info due to various software or hardware fails. After a file gets damaged, it will no longer function properly, so an application will not start or will give errors, a text file will 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 harmed without any identification by the system or an administrator, which makes it a serious problem for website hosting servers as problems are more likely to happen on larger in size hard disk drives where substantial volumes of info are kept. If a drive is a part of a RAID and the info on it is copied on other drives for redundancy, it's more than likely that the bad file will be treated as a regular one and it'll be copied on all of the drives, making the damage permanent. Lots of the file systems which operate on web servers nowadays often cannot identify corrupted files immediately or they need time-consuming system checks during which the server is not operational.
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No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Cloud Hosting
The integrity of the data that you upload to your new
cloud hosting account shall be guaranteed by the ZFS file system which we use on our cloud platform. The majority of web hosting service providers, including our firm, use multiple HDDs to store content and since the drives work in a RAID, the exact same info is synchronized between the drives all of the time. In case a file on a drive gets corrupted for whatever reason, however, it's very likely that it will be copied on the other drives because other file systems don't have special checks for this. In contrast to them, ZFS employs a digital fingerprint, or a checksum, for every file. In the event that a file gets damaged, its checksum will not match what ZFS has as a record for it, and the bad copy will be swapped with a good one from a different hard disk drive. Because this happens instantly, there's no possibility for any of your files to ever get damaged.
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No Data Corruption & Data Integrity in Semi-dedicated Servers
Your
semi-dedicated server account will be protected against silent data corruption as all of our storage servers make use of the efficient ZFS file system. What makes the aforementioned unique is that it employs checksums, or digital identifiers, to guarantee the integrity of each and every file. When you upload content to your account, it will be kept on several redundant drives being employed in a RAID i.e. the files shall be the same on all disk drives. All of the copies of a specific file will feature the same checksum on all hard disks and ZFS will compare the checksums of the duplicates right away, so if it detects a mismatch, which will indicate that one of the copies is corrupted, it'll swap that file with a good copy from one of the other drives. Even if there's an unforeseen power loss, the data on the servers won't be corrupted and there will not be any need for a time-consuming system check that other file systems perform after some failure, prolonging the time needed for the server to go back online. ZFS is the file system that can truly protect your content from silent data corruption.