Data compression is the lowering of the number of bits that have to be stored or transmitted and this process is quite important in the internet hosting field because data recorded on hard drives is typically compressed in order to take less space. There're many different algorithms for compressing info and they offer different efficiency depending on the content. A lot of them remove just the redundant bits, so that no data will be lost, while others erase unnecessary bits, which results in worse quality when your data is uncompressed. The process requires a lot of processing time, therefore a hosting server has to be powerful enough in order to be able to compress and uncompress data right away. One example how binary code could be compressed is by "remembering" that there're five sequential 1s, for example, in contrast to storing all five 1s.

Data Compression in Cloud Website Hosting

The compression algorithm used by the ZFS file system that runs on our cloud web hosting platform is called LZ4. It can improve the performance of any site hosted in a cloud website hosting account on our end because not only does it compress data more effectively than algorithms employed by alternative file systems, but also uncompresses data at speeds which are higher than the hard disk drive reading speeds. This can be done by using a lot of CPU processing time, which is not a problem for our platform considering the fact that it uses clusters of powerful servers working together. One more advantage of LZ4 is that it enables us to make backups more speedily and on lower disk space, so we will have several daily backups of your files and databases and their generation won't change the performance of the servers. That way, we could always restore any content that you may have erased by mistake.

Data Compression in Semi-dedicated Hosting

The ZFS file system which runs on the cloud platform where your semi-dedicated hosting account will be created uses a powerful compression algorithm called LZ4. It is among the best algorithms out there and positively the most efficient one when it comes to compressing and uncompressing website content, as its ratio is very high and it'll uncompress data faster than the same data can be read from a hard disk drive if it were uncompressed. Thus, using LZ4 will speed up every website that runs on a platform where the algorithm is enabled. This high performance requires plenty of CPU processing time, that's provided by the large number of clusters working together as a part of our platform. What's more, LZ4 enables us to generate several backups of your content every day and save them for one month as they will take a reduced amount of space than typical backups and will be generated considerably faster without loading the servers.