Data compression is the lowering of the number of bits which have to be saved or transmitted and this process is rather important in the internet hosting field because data recorded on hard drives is often compressed in order to take less space. There're various algorithms for compressing data and they offer different efficiency depending on the content. A number of them remove just the redundant bits, so no data can be lost, while others delete unnecessary bits, which results in worse quality when the data is uncompressed. This method uses a lot of processing time, therefore a hosting server should be powerful enough to be able to compress and uncompress data instantly. One example 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 compression algorithm used by the ZFS file system that runs on our cloud internet hosting platform is called LZ4. It can boost the performance of any website hosted in a cloud hosting account on our end as not only does it compress data more effectively than algorithms used by various other file systems, but it also uncompresses data at speeds that are higher than the hard disk drive reading speeds. This can be done by using a great deal of CPU processing time, which is not a problem for our platform due to the fact that it uses clusters of powerful servers working together. One more advantage of LZ4 is that it allows us to generate backups a lot faster and on reduced disk space, so we will have multiple daily backups of your files and databases and their generation will not change the performance of the servers. This way, we can always recover the content that you may have removed by accident.

Data Compression in Semi-dedicated Hosting

The ZFS file system that runs on the cloud platform where your semi-dedicated hosting account will be created uses a powerful compression algorithm called LZ4. It's one of the best algorithms out there and certainly the most efficient one when it comes to compressing and uncompressing web content, as its ratio is very high and it will uncompress data at a faster rate than the same data can be read from a hard drive if it were uncompressed. Thus, using LZ4 will accelerate any kind of site that runs on a platform where this algorithm is enabled. The high performance requires plenty of CPU processing time, that's provided by the great number of clusters working together as a part of our platform. What's more, LZ4 makes it possible for us to generate several backup copies of your content every day and keep them for a month as they'll take much less space than standard backups and will be generated considerably faster without loading the servers.