Data compression is the reduction of the number of bits that should be stored or transmitted and this particular process is rather important in the web hosting field due to the fact that data recorded on hard drives is generally compressed to take less space. You'll find various algorithms for compressing data and they provide different efficiency depending on the content. A lot of them remove only the redundant bits, so that no data will be lost, while others erase unneeded bits, which leads to worse quality once the data is uncompressed. The process needs plenty of processing time, which means that a hosting server has to be powerful enough in order to be able to compress and uncompress data quickly. An illustration how binary code may be compressed is by "remembering" that there are five sequential 1s, for example, rather than storing all five 1s.

Data Compression in Cloud Web Hosting

The cloud web hosting platform where your cloud web hosting account is made works by using the innovative ZFS file system. The LZ4 compression method that the latter employs is superior in various aspects, and not only does it compress data better than any compression method which some other file systems use, but it is also quicker. The gains will be significant especially on compressible content which includes website files. While it may sound unreasonable, uncompressing data with LZ4 is faster than reading uncompressed info from a hard disk, so the performance of any Internet site hosted on our servers shall be better. The better and faster compression rates also make it possible for us to generate multiple daily backups of the entire content in each web hosting account, so in the event you delete anything by mistake, the last back-up copy that we have won't be more than a couple of hours old. This can be done because the backups take much less space and their generation is quick enough, so as to not change the performance of our 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's one of the best algorithms out there and positively the best one when it comes to compressing and uncompressing web content, as its ratio is very high and it will uncompress data at a faster rate than the same data can be read from a hard disk drive if it were uncompressed. That way, using LZ4 will boost every website that runs on a platform where the algorithm is enabled. This high performance requires a lot of CPU processing time, that is provided by the multitude of clusters working together as a part of our platform. In addition, LZ4 makes it possible for us to generate several backups of your content every day and save them for one month as they will take much less space than typical backups and will be generated considerably quicker without loading the servers.