Data compression is the lowering of the number of bits which should be stored or transmitted and this particular process is really important in the internet hosting field since info kept on HDDs is generally compressed so as to take less space. You will find various algorithms for compressing info and they provide different effectiveness depending on the content. Many of them remove just the redundant bits, so that no data can be lost, while others delete unneeded bits, which leads to worse quality once the particular data is uncompressed. This method consumes plenty of processing time, which means that an internet hosting server should be powerful enough to be able to compress and uncompress data instantly. An example how binary code could be compressed is by "remembering" that there are five sequential 1s, for example, in contrast to storing all five 1s.

Data Compression in Website Hosting

The compression algorithm employed by the ZFS file system which runs on our cloud web hosting platform is named LZ4. It can improve the performance of any website hosted in a website hosting account with us as not only does it compress info more efficiently than algorithms used by various other file systems, but it also uncompresses data at speeds that are higher than the hard drive reading speeds. This can be done by using a great deal of CPU processing time, which is not a problem for our platform considering that it uses clusters of powerful servers working together. One more advantage of LZ4 is that it enables us to generate backup copies faster and on less disk space, so we can have a couple of daily backups of your databases and files and their generation won't affect the performance of the servers. In this way, we can always recover the content that you may have deleted by mistake.

Data Compression in Semi-dedicated Hosting

The ZFS file system that runs on the cloud platform where your semi-dedicated hosting account will be created uses a powerful compression algorithm called LZ4. It is one of the best algorithms out there and definitely the best one when it comes to compressing and uncompressing web content, as its ratio is very high and it'll uncompress data a lot faster than the same data can be read from a hard drive if it were uncompressed. That way, using LZ4 will speed up every site that runs on a platform where this algorithm is present. The high performance requires plenty of CPU processing time, that's provided by the numerous clusters working together as part of our platform. In addition to that, LZ4 allows us to generate several backups of your content every day and have them for a month as they will take much less space than typical backups and will be created much faster without loading the servers.