Data compression is the reduction of the number of bits that need to be stored or transmitted and this particular process is very important in the internet hosting field due to the fact that information filed on HDDs is generally compressed so as to take less space. There are different algorithms for compressing information and they provide different effectiveness depending on the content. Many of them remove just the redundant bits, so no data will be lost, while others delete unneeded bits, which results in worse quality when the particular data is uncompressed. This process uses plenty of processing time, so a hosting server should be powerful enough so as to be able to compress and uncompress data quickly. An instance how binary code can be compressed is by "remembering" that there are five sequential 1s, for example, as an alternative to storing all five 1s.
Data Compression in Cloud Website Hosting
The cloud web hosting platform where your cloud website hosting account shall be created works by using the outstanding ZFS file system. The LZ4 compression method that the latter employs is greater in a number of aspects, and not only does it compress information better than any compression method that a number of other file systems use, but it is also much faster. The gains may be significant especially on compressible content such as website files. Despite the fact that it may sound unreasonable, uncompressing data with LZ4 is faster than reading uncompressed data from a hard drive, so the performance of every Internet site hosted on our servers will be better. The better and quicker compression rates also allow us to produce a large number of daily backups of the entire content in each and every web hosting account, so if you delete something by accident, the last back-up copy that 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 quick enough, so as to not change 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's one of the best algorithms out there and positively the most efficient one when it comes to compressing and uncompressing web content, as its ratio is very high and it'll uncompress data quicker than the same data can be read from a hard disk drive if it were uncompressed. This way, using LZ4 will boost any kind of website that runs on a platform where this algorithm is present. This high performance requires lots of CPU processing time, that is provided by the numerous clusters working together as part of our platform. Furthermore, LZ4 enables us to generate several backups of your content every day and have them for a month as they will take a smaller amount of space than typical backups and will be created much faster without loading the servers.