Data compression is the decrease of the number of bits which need to be saved or transmitted and the process is really important in the internet hosting field due to the fact that info recorded on HDDs is typically compressed to take less space. You'll find various algorithms for compressing info and they provide different effectiveness based on the content. A number of them remove just the redundant bits, so that no data will be lost, while others erase unneeded bits, which leads to worse quality when the data is uncompressed. The method requires 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 immediately. An instance 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 Shared Hosting

The compression algorithm used by the ZFS file system which runs on our cloud web hosting platform is named LZ4. It can improve the performance of any Internet site hosted in a shared hosting account with us because not only does it compress info significantly better than algorithms employed by various other file systems, but it uncompresses data at speeds which are higher than the hard disk reading speeds. This can be done by using a lot of CPU processing time, which is not a problem for our platform for the reason that it uses clusters of powerful servers working together. A further advantage of LZ4 is that it allows us to make backup copies much more rapidly and on lower disk space, so we shall have several daily backups of your files and databases and their generation won't affect the performance of the servers. This way, we could always restore the content that you may have deleted by accident.

Data Compression in Semi-dedicated Servers

The ZFS file system which runs on the cloud platform where your semi-dedicated server account will be created uses a powerful compression algorithm called LZ4. It's among the best algorithms out there and certainly the most efficient one when it comes to compressing and uncompressing website content, as its ratio is very high and it will uncompress data quicker than the same data can be read from a hard drive if it were uncompressed. In this way, using LZ4 will speed up any Internet site that runs on a platform where this algorithm is present. This 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 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 standard backups and will be created much quicker without loading the servers.