Data corruption is the unintentional change of a file or the loss of info which usually occurs during reading or writing. The reason could be hardware or software malfunction, and for that reason, a file can become partially or entirely corrupted, so it will no longer work as it should because its bits shall be scrambled or lost. An image file, for instance, will no longer present an authentic image, but a random mix of colors, an archive will be impossible to unpack since its content will be unreadable, etcetera. If this kind of an issue appears and it is not identified by the system or by an administrator, the data will get corrupted silently and in case this happens on a drive that is a part of a RAID array where the information is synced between various drives, the corrupted file will be duplicated on all the other drives and the damage will be long term. Numerous widespread file systems either do not feature real-time checks or don't have good ones that can detect a problem before the damage is done, so silent data corruption is a common issue on web hosting servers where large volumes of info are kept.

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We warrant the integrity of the data uploaded in each shared web hosting account which is created on our cloud platform since we employ the advanced ZFS file system. The latter is the only one which was designed to avert silent data corruption thanks to a unique checksum for each and every file. We shall store your info on a number of NVMe drives which operate in a RAID, so the exact same files will exist on several places simultaneously. ZFS checks the digital fingerprint of all of the files on all of the drives in real time and in the event that the checksum of any file differs from what it has to be, the file system swaps that file with an undamaged copy from a different drive within the RAID. No other file system uses checksums, so it is possible for data to get silently corrupted and the bad file to be reproduced on all drives over time, but since this can never happen on a server using ZFS, you won't have to concern yourself with the integrity of your info.