Data compression is the reduction of the number of bits which need to be saved or transmitted and this particular process is really important in the internet hosting field since data recorded on hard disk drives is usually compressed so as to take less space. You will find many different algorithms for compressing data and they offer different effectiveness based upon the content. A number of them remove only the redundant bits, so no data will be lost, while others erase unnecessary bits, which results in worse quality when the data is uncompressed. This process consumes a lot of processing time, therefore a web hosting server needs to be powerful enough to be able to compress and uncompress data instantly. An example how binary code may be compressed is by "remembering" that there are five sequential 1s, for example, rather than storing all five 1s.

Data Compression in Cloud Hosting

The compression algorithm employed by the ZFS file system which runs on our cloud web hosting platform is named LZ4. It can upgrade the performance of any Internet site hosted in a cloud hosting account on our end because not only does it compress data significantly better than algorithms employed by alternative file systems, but also uncompresses data at speeds which are higher than the hard drive reading speeds. This can be done by using a lot of CPU processing time, which is not a problem for our platform for the reason that it uses clusters of powerful servers working together. An additional advantage of LZ4 is that it enables us to make backups more rapidly and on less disk space, so we will have multiple daily backups of your files and databases and their generation will not influence the performance of the servers. In this way, we could always recover any content that you may have removed by accident.

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'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 will uncompress data at a faster rate than the same data can be read from a hard disk drive if it were uncompressed. That way, using LZ4 will speed up any site that runs on a platform where the algorithm is enabled. This high performance requires a lot of CPU processing time, that's provided by the numerous clusters working together as a part of our platform. In addition, LZ4 enables us to generate several backups of your content every day and keep them for a month as they will take a reduced amount of space than regular backups and will be generated much faster without loading the servers.