Data compression is the lowering of the number of bits which have to be stored or transmitted and the process is really important in the internet hosting field as info filed on HDDs is often compressed so as to take less space. You will find different algorithms for compressing info and they have different effectiveness based upon the content. A number of them remove just the redundant bits, so that no data can be lost, while others remove unneeded bits, which results in worse quality when the data is uncompressed. This method requires a lot of processing time, which means that an internet hosting server needs to be powerful enough so as to be able to compress and uncompress data right away. An example how binary code could be compressed is by "remembering" that there're five consecutive 1s, for example, rather than storing all five 1s.

Data Compression in Website Hosting

The cloud web hosting platform where your website hosting account shall be created works by using the impressive ZFS file system. The LZ4 compression method which the aforementioned uses is greater in various aspects, and not only does it compress information better than any compression method which similar file systems use, but it is also faster. The gains will be significant particularly on compressible content which includes website files. While it may sound irrational, uncompressing data with LZ4 is faster than reading uncompressed info from a hard disk, so the performance of each and every site hosted on our servers will be better. The better and quicker compression rates also allow us to generate multiple daily backups of the entire content in each Internet hosting account, so should you delete anything by accident, the last back-up copy which we have won't be more than a couple of hours old. This is possible because the backups take a lot less space and their generation is fast enough, to not change the performance of our servers.

Data Compression in Semi-dedicated Hosting

The semi-dedicated hosting plans which we provide are created on a powerful cloud platform that runs on the ZFS file system. ZFS works with a compression algorithm called LZ4 that is greater than any other algorithm you will find in terms of speed and compression ratio when it comes to processing website content. This is valid especially when data is uncompressed since LZ4 does that faster than it would be to read uncompressed data from a hard disk and because of this, Internet sites running on a platform where LZ4 is present will work at a higher speed. We can benefit from this feature regardless of the fact that it needs quite a large amount of CPU processing time because our platform uses a huge number of powerful servers working together and we never make accounts on just a single machine like many companies do. There is an additional reward of using LZ4 - considering that it compresses data really well and does that speedily, we can also generate multiple daily backups of all accounts without affecting the performance of the servers and keep them for an entire month. That way, you can always restore any content that you erase by accident.