Data compression is the decrease of the number of bits that need to be stored or transmitted and this process is quite important in the web hosting field as info recorded on hard drives is generally compressed so as to take less space. You'll find various algorithms for compressing info and they offer different effectiveness depending on the content. Many of them remove only the redundant bits, so no data can be lost, while others remove unneeded bits, which leads to worse quality when the particular data is uncompressed. The method requires plenty of processing time, therefore a web hosting server should 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 Cloud Hosting

The compression algorithm which we work with on the cloud hosting platform where your new cloud hosting account will be created is known as LZ4 and it is used by the revolutionary ZFS file system which powers the platform. The algorithm is a lot better than the ones other file systems use since its compression ratio is a lot higher and it processes data considerably faster. The speed is most noticeable when content is being uncompressed since this happens quicker than data can be read from a hdd. As a result, LZ4 improves the performance of each and every Internet site located on a server that uses the algorithm. We use LZ4 in one more way - its speed and compression ratio let us make several daily backups of the whole content of all accounts and keep them for one month. Not only do our backup copies take less space, but in addition their generation doesn't slow the servers down like it can often happen with other file systems.

Data Compression in Semi-dedicated Hosting

The semi-dedicated hosting plans which we supply are created on a powerful cloud hosting platform which runs on the ZFS file system. ZFS employs a compression algorithm called LZ4 that is better than any other algorithm these days in terms of speed and data compression ratio when it comes to processing web content. This is valid particularly when data is uncompressed because LZ4 does that more rapidly than it would be to read uncompressed data from a hard disk drive and as a result, Internet sites running on a platform where LZ4 is enabled will work quicker. We are able to take advantage of the feature regardless of the fact that it needs quite a considerable amount of CPU processing time as our platform uses a huge number of powerful servers working together and we don't make accounts on just a single machine like most companies do. There's another advantage of using LZ4 - considering the fact that it compresses data very well and does that extremely fast, we can also make multiple daily backup copies of all accounts without affecting the performance of the servers and keep them for an entire month. This way, you'll always be able to bring back any content that you erase by mistake.