Data corruption is the damage of data because of various hardware or software problems. When a file is damaged, it will no longer function properly, so an application will not start or shall give errors, a text file can be partially or completely unreadable, an archive file will be impossible to open then unpack, etc. Silent data corruption is the process of info getting harmed without any identification by the system or an administrator, which makes it a significant problem for website hosting servers as failures are much more likely to happen on bigger hard disks where substantial volumes of info are located. When a drive is part of a RAID and the information on it is replicated on other drives for redundancy, it's very likely that the bad file will be treated as a good one and will be copied on all of the drives, making the harm permanent. Lots of the file systems which run on web servers today often are not able to detect corrupted files in real time or they need time-consuming system checks through which the server isn't working.

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We guarantee the integrity of the data uploaded in each shared website hosting account which is made on our cloud platform as we use the advanced ZFS file system. The aforementioned is the only one which was designed to avoid silent data corruption through a unique checksum for every single file. We shall store your data on a number of NVMe drives that work in a RAID, so identical files will be present on several places at once. ZFS checks the digital fingerprint of all the files on all the drives in real time and if the checksum of any file is different from what it should be, the file system swaps that file with a healthy copy from some other drive in the RAID. There's no other file system which uses checksums, so it's possible for data to become silently corrupted and the bad file to be replicated on all drives with time, but since that can never happen on a server running ZFS, you do not have to concern yourself with the integrity of your info.