Data compression is the lowering of the number of bits which have to be stored or transmitted and this particular process is really important in the internet hosting field due to the fact that data located on hard disks is typically compressed to take less space. You'll find different algorithms for compressing information and they have different effectiveness depending on the content. Some of them remove only the redundant bits, so that no data will be lost, while others delete unneeded bits, which results in worse quality once the data is uncompressed. This process needs a lot of processing time, which means that a web hosting server has to be powerful enough to be able to compress and uncompress data in real time. An instance how binary code may be compressed is by "remembering" that there are five consecutive 1s, for example, rather than storing all five 1s.

Data Compression in Cloud Hosting

The ZFS file system that runs on our cloud web hosting platform employs a compression algorithm called LZ4. The aforementioned is substantially faster and better than every other algorithm out there, especially for compressing and uncompressing non-binary data i.e. web content. LZ4 even uncompresses data quicker than it is read from a hard disk drive, which improves the overall performance of sites hosted on ZFS-based platforms. Due to the fact that the algorithm compresses data quite well and it does that very fast, we are able to generate several backups of all the content stored in the cloud hosting accounts on our servers daily. Both your content and its backups will take reduced space and since both ZFS and LZ4 work extremely fast, the backup generation will not influence the performance of the web hosting servers where your content will be kept.

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 positively the best one when it comes to compressing and uncompressing web content, as its ratio is very high and it can uncompress data faster than the same data can be read from a hard disk drive if it were uncompressed. In this way, using LZ4 will speed up any site that runs on a platform where the algorithm is enabled. The high performance requires lots of CPU processing time, which is provided by the large number of clusters working together as a part of our platform. In addition, 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 regular backups and will be created considerably quicker without loading the servers.