Data compression is the lowering of the number of bits that need to be saved or transmitted and the process is rather important in the web hosting field as info located on HDDs is typically compressed to take less space. You will find many different algorithms for compressing data and they provide different efficiency based upon the content. Many of them remove only the redundant bits, so that no data can be lost, while others erase unnecessary bits, which leads to worse quality once the data is uncompressed. This process uses a lot of processing time, so an internet hosting server has to be powerful enough so as to be able to compress and uncompress data immediately. An illustration how binary code could be compressed is by "remembering" that there're five sequential 1s, for example, as an alternative to storing all five 1s.

Data Compression in Cloud Hosting

The cloud hosting platform where your cloud hosting account shall be made uses the innovative ZFS file system. The LZ4 compression method that the latter employs is better in various aspects, and not only does it compress information better than any compression method which other file systems use, but it is also a lot quicker. The benefits will be significant especially on compressible content which includes website files. Although it could sound irrational, uncompressing data with LZ4 is faster than reading uncompressed info from a hard disk drive, so the performance of each and every website hosted on our servers will be enhanced. The better and faster compression rates also allow us to generate a large number of daily backups of the entire content in each and every hosting account, so in the event you delete something by mistake, the last back-up copy that we have will not be more than a few hours old. This is possible because the backups take much less space and their generation is quick enough, so as to not influence the performance of our servers.

Data Compression in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Your semi-dedicated hosting account shall be created on a cloud platform which runs using the innovative ZFS file system. The aforementioned uses a compression algorithm known as LZ4, that's much better than various other algorithms when it comes to compression ratio and speed. The gain is apparent especially when data is being uncompressed and not only is LZ4 a lot faster than other algorithms, but it is also faster in uncompressing data than a system is in reading from a hard disk. Because of this websites running on a platform which employs LZ4 compression perform better because the algorithm is most effective when it processes compressible data i.e. web content. An additional advantage of using LZ4 is that the backup copies of the semi-dedicated accounts that we keep take less space and they're generated a lot quicker, which allows us to have a number of daily backups of all your files and databases.