Data compression is the reduction of the number of bits which need to be stored or transmitted and the process is quite important in the internet hosting field since information stored on hard disks is often compressed in order to take less space. There're various algorithms for compressing information and they offer different effectiveness based upon the content. A lot of them remove just the redundant bits, so no data will be lost, while others erase unnecessary bits, which leads to worse quality when your data is uncompressed. The method uses plenty of processing time, so a web hosting server has to be powerful enough to be able to compress and uncompress data instantly. An illustration how binary code can be compressed is by "remembering" that there're five sequential 1s, for example, in contrast to storing all five 1s.

Data Compression in Cloud Web Hosting

The cloud internet hosting platform where your cloud web hosting account is generated employs the impressive ZFS file system. The LZ4 compression method which the aforementioned uses is greater in numerous aspects, and not only does it compress info better than any compression method which a variety of other file systems use, but it is also much faster. The benefits can be significant especially on compressible content which includes website files. Even though it may sound irrational, uncompressing data with LZ4 is quicker than reading uncompressed data from a hard disk drive, so the performance of every website hosted on our servers will be boosted. The better and quicker compression rates also allow us to generate a large number of daily backups of the whole content in each and every web hosting account, so should you delete something by accident, the last backup which we have will not be more than a few hours old. This is possible because the backups take considerably less space and their generation is fast enough, so as to not change the performance of our servers.

Data Compression in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you host your sites in a semi-dedicated server account from our company, you can experience the advantages of LZ4 - the powerful compression algorithm used by the ZFS file system that is behind our advanced cloud hosting platform. What differentiates LZ4 from all the other algorithms out there is that it has a better compression ratio and it is much faster, particularly when it comes to uncompressing web content. It does that even quicker than uncompressed information can be read from a hard disk drive, so your websites will perform better. The higher speed comes at the expense of using a lot of CPU processing time, that is not a problem for our platform since it consists of a large number of clusters working together. Besides the better performance, you'll have multiple daily backups at your disposal, so you can restore any deleted content with several clicks. The backups are available for a whole month and we can afford to store them as they need a lot less space compared to traditional backups.