The term data compression describes decreasing the number of bits of data which needs to be stored or transmitted. This can be done with or without losing info, so what will be removed throughout the compression shall be either redundant data or unnecessary one. When the data is uncompressed afterwards, in the first case the information and its quality will be identical, whereas in the second case the quality shall be worse. There're different compression algorithms which are more efficient for different kind of info. Compressing and uncompressing data in most cases takes a lot of processing time, which means that the server executing the action should have plenty of resources to be able to process the info fast enough. One simple example how information can be compressed is to store just how many consecutive positions should have 1 and just how many should have 0 inside the binary code as an alternative to storing the particular 1s and 0s.

Data Compression in Website Hosting

The compression algorithm employed by the ZFS file system which runs on our cloud hosting platform is known as LZ4. It can boost the performance of any site hosted in a website hosting account on our end since not only does it compress data more effectively than algorithms employed by various file systems, but also uncompresses data at speeds which are higher than the HDD reading speeds. This is achieved by using a lot of CPU processing time, which is not a problem for our platform considering the fact that it uses clusters of powerful servers working together. One more advantage of LZ4 is that it allows us to make backup copies more quickly and on less disk space, so we shall have several daily backups of your databases and files and their generation will not influence the performance of the servers. In this way, we can always recover all of the content that you could have deleted by accident.

Data Compression in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you host your Internet sites in a semi-dedicated server account from our firm, you'll be able to experience the advantages of LZ4 - the powerful compression algorithm employed by the ZFS file system that's behind our advanced cloud Internet hosting platform. What distinguishes LZ4 from all of the other algorithms out there is that it has a higher compression ratio and it is considerably faster, especially when it comes to uncompressing web content. It does that even quicker than uncompressed info can be read from a hard disk drive, so your Internet sites will perform better. The higher speed is at the expense of using a lot of CPU processing time, that's not a problem for our platform since it consists of a large number of clusters working together. Besides the better performance, you'll also have multiple daily backup copies at your disposal, so you'll be able to recover any deleted content with a couple of clicks. The backups are available for an entire month and we can afford to keep them because they need a lot less space compared to ordinary backups.