The term data compression identifies reducing the number of bits of info that needs to be saved or transmitted. This can be achieved with or without the loss of data, which means that what will be removed during the compression shall be either redundant data or unneeded one. When the data is uncompressed later on, in the first case the info and its quality will be the same, whereas in the second case the quality shall be worse. You'll find different compression algorithms which are more effective for various sort of data. Compressing and uncompressing data generally takes plenty of processing time, therefore the server carrying out the action must have plenty of resources in order to be able to process the data quick enough. One simple example how information can be compressed is to store just how many sequential positions should have 1 and just how many should have 0 in the binary code rather than storing the particular 1s and 0s.

Data Compression in Website Hosting

The compression algorithm employed by the ZFS file system that runs on our cloud hosting platform is known as LZ4. It can enhance the performance of any site hosted in a website hosting account with us since not only does it compress info more effectively than algorithms used by various file systems, but also uncompresses data at speeds that are higher than the HDD reading speeds. This can be done by using a great deal of CPU processing time, which is not a problem for our platform because it uses clusters of powerful servers working together. One more advantage of LZ4 is that it enables us to generate backups more quickly and on lower disk space, so we will have a couple of daily backups of your files and databases and their generation won't affect the performance of the servers. That way, we could always recover any kind of content that you may have removed by accident.

Data Compression in Semi-dedicated Hosting

In case you host your sites in a semi-dedicated hosting account with our company, you'll be able to experience the advantages of LZ4 - the powerful compression algorithm used by the ZFS file system which is behind our advanced cloud web hosting platform. What differentiates LZ4 from all of the other algorithms out there is that it has an improved compression ratio and it is much quicker, particularly with regard to uncompressing website content. It does that even quicker than uncompressed data can be read from a hard drive, so your Internet sites will perform faster. The higher speed comes at the expense of using lots of CPU processing time, which is not a problem for our platform as it consists of a large number of clusters working together. Along with the superior performance, you'll also have multiple daily backup copies at your disposal, so you'll be able to restore any deleted content with a couple of clicks. The backup copies are available for a whole month and we can afford to store them since they take considerably less space than traditional backups.