Data compression is the reduction of the number of bits that have to be stored or transmitted and this particular process is very important in the web hosting field due to the fact that data recorded on hard drives is typically compressed so as to take less space. There're different algorithms for compressing info and they offer different effectiveness based upon the content. Many of them remove just the redundant bits, so that no data will be lost, while others remove unnecessary bits, which results in worse quality when your data is uncompressed. This process requires plenty of processing time, therefore an internet hosting server has to be powerful enough so as to be able to compress and uncompress data in real time. An instance how binary code can 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 cloud hosting platform where your cloud hosting account will be created employs the revolutionary ZFS file system. The LZ4 compression method which the aforementioned uses is superior in various aspects, and not only does it compress information better than any compression method which some other file systems use, but it's also faster. The gains will be significant particularly on compressible content such as website files. Even though it could sound irrational, uncompressing data with LZ4 is quicker than reading uncompressed info from a hard drive, so the performance of every site hosted on our servers will be better. The better and faster compression rates also allow us to produce a number of daily backups of the entire content in each Internet hosting account, so if you delete something by mistake, the last backup that we have will not be more than several hours old. This is possible as the backups take considerably less space and their generation is fast enough, to not influence the performance of our servers.

Data Compression in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Your semi-dedicated hosting account will be created on a cloud platform that is run on the advanced ZFS file system. The aforementioned uses a compression algorithm named LZ4, which is a lot better than various other algorithms when it comes to compression ratio and speed. The gain is visible particularly when data is being uncompressed and not only is LZ4 quicker than other algorithms, but it is also quicker in uncompressing data than a system is in reading from a hard disk drive. That is why websites running on a platform that employs LZ4 compression perform faster as the algorithm is most effective when it processes compressible data i.e. website content. One more advantage of using LZ4 is that the backups of the semi-dedicated accounts which we keep take less space and they're generated quicker, which enables us to keep several daily backups of all your files and databases.