Data compression is the compacting of information by lowering the number of bits that are stored or transmitted. Because of this, the compressed info will take considerably less disk space than the original one, so extra content could be stored on the same amount of space. There're different compression algorithms that work in different ways and with many of them only the redundant bits are erased, which means that once the data is uncompressed, there's no loss of quality. Others remove excessive bits, but uncompressing the data later will result in reduced quality compared to the original. Compressing and uncompressing content requires a huge amount of system resources, particularly CPU processing time, therefore any hosting platform which employs compression in real time should have sufficient power to support this attribute. An example how info can be compressed is to replace a binary code such as 111111 with 6x1 i.e. "remembering" the number of consecutive 1s or 0s there should be instead of storing the entire code.

Data Compression in Cloud Web Hosting

The compression algorithm employed by the ZFS file system that runs on our cloud internet hosting platform is called LZ4. It can improve the performance of any Internet site hosted in a cloud web hosting account on our end as not only does it compress info much better than algorithms used by other file systems, but also uncompresses data at speeds that are higher than the hard disk reading speeds. This is achieved by using a lot of CPU processing time, which is not a problem for our platform since it uses clusters of powerful servers working together. A further advantage of LZ4 is that it allows us to generate backups more speedily and on less disk space, so we shall have multiple daily backups of your files and databases and their generation won't change the performance of the servers. In this way, we can always recover all content that you may have erased 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 positively the most efficient one when it comes to compressing and uncompressing web content, as its ratio is very high and it'll uncompress data much faster than the same data can be read from a hard disk drive if it were uncompressed. In this way, using LZ4 will boost any kind of site that runs on a platform where the algorithm is enabled. The high performance requires plenty of CPU processing time, which is provided by the numerous clusters working together as a part of our platform. In addition to that, LZ4 allows us to generate several backup copies of your content every day and save them for a month as they'll take a smaller amount of space than standard backups and will be generated much quicker without loading the servers.