Data compression is the lowering of the number of bits which have to be saved or transmitted and the process is rather important in the web hosting field because data located on hard disk drives is usually compressed in order to take less space. There're many different algorithms for compressing data and they have different effectiveness depending on the content. A number of them remove only the redundant bits, so no data can be lost, while others delete unneeded bits, which results in worse quality once the particular data is uncompressed. The process uses a lot of processing time, so an internet hosting server needs to be powerful enough so as to be able to compress and uncompress data immediately. An example how binary code may be compressed is by "remembering" that there are five consecutive 1s, for example, as an alternative to storing all five 1s.
Data Compression in Cloud Web Hosting
The cloud web hosting platform where your cloud web hosting account is generated uses the reliable ZFS file system. The LZ4 compression method that the latter uses is greater in numerous aspects, and not only does it compress info better than any compression method which many other file systems use, but it's also much faster. The benefits can be significant particularly on compressible content like website files. Although it could sound illogical, uncompressing data with LZ4 is quicker than reading uncompressed data from a hard drive, so the performance of each and every website hosted on our servers will be enhanced. The better and quicker compression rates also make it possible for us to make a number of daily backups of the full content in each and every Internet hosting account, so in the event you delete anything by mistake, the last back-up copy which we have won't be more than a couple of hours old. This is possible because the backups take a lot less space and their generation is fast enough, to not affect the performance of the servers.
Data Compression in Semi-dedicated Hosting
The ZFS file system which 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 can uncompress data at a faster rate than the same data can be read from a hard drive if it were uncompressed. That way, using LZ4 will quicken every site that runs on a platform where the algorithm is present. This high performance requires plenty of CPU processing time, which is provided by the great number of clusters working together as part of our platform. In addition, LZ4 allows us to generate several backups of your content every day and save them for one month as they will take much less space than regular backups and will be created much more quickly without loading the servers.