Data compression is the decrease of the number of bits that should be saved or transmitted and this process is rather important in the web hosting field as information recorded on hard drives is generally compressed so as to take less space. You'll find different algorithms for compressing info and they offer different effectiveness based upon the content. A number of them remove just the redundant bits, so no data can be lost, while others delete unnecessary bits, which leads to worse quality when the particular data is uncompressed. The process needs a lot of processing time, therefore a web hosting server has to be powerful enough to be able to compress and uncompress data right away. An example how binary code may be compressed is by "remembering" that there are five consecutive 1s, for example, in contrast to storing all five 1s.
Data Compression in Cloud Website Hosting
The cloud internet hosting platform where your cloud website hosting account is made employs the revolutionary ZFS file system. The LZ4 compression method which the latter employs is greater in numerous aspects, and not only does it compress info better than any compression method that many other file systems use, but it's also much faster. The benefits are significant in particular on compressible content like website files. Despite the fact that it may sound irrational, uncompressing data with LZ4 is quicker than reading uncompressed info from a hard disk, so the performance of each and every site hosted on our servers shall be better. The better and quicker compression rates also make it possible for us to produce a large number of daily backups of the entire content in each hosting account, so if you delete something by accident, the last backup which we have won't be more than a few hours old. This is possible as the backups take significantly less space and their generation is fast enough, so as to not change the performance of our servers.
Data Compression in Semi-dedicated Hosting
Your semi-dedicated hosting account shall be created on a cloud platform that is run on the advanced ZFS file system. The latter uses a compression algorithm called LZ4, that's a lot better than alternative algorithms with regard to compression ratio and speed. The gain is visible especially when data is being uncompressed and not only is LZ4 faster than other algorithms, but it is also faster in uncompressing data than a system is in reading from a hard disk drive. That is why Internet sites running on a platform which uses LZ4 compression perform better because the algorithm is most efficient when it processes compressible data i.e. site content. A further advantage of using LZ4 is that the backup copies of the semi-dedicated accounts that we keep need less space and they are generated a lot quicker, which enables us to store a couple of daily backups of your files and databases.