Data compression is the compacting of information by lowering the number of bits that are stored or transmitted. Consequently, the compressed info needs substantially less disk space than the initial one, so much more content can be stored using the same amount of space. You'll find many different compression algorithms that work in different ways and with some of them just the redundant bits are erased, so once the info is uncompressed, there's no loss of quality. Others delete excessive bits, but uncompressing the data at a later time will lead to lower quality in comparison with the original. Compressing and uncompressing content requires a large amount of system resources, in particular CPU processing time, therefore any web hosting platform which employs compression in real time should have ample power to support that attribute. An example how info can be compressed is to substitute a binary code such as 111111 with 6x1 i.e. "remembering" the number of consecutive 1s or 0s there should be instead of saving the whole code.

Data Compression in Cloud Website Hosting

The compression algorithm employed by the ZFS file system which runs on our cloud internet hosting platform is known as LZ4. It can enhance the performance of any site hosted in a cloud website hosting account with us as not only does it compress info more efficiently than algorithms used by various file systems, but it also uncompresses data at speeds which are higher than the hard disk drive reading speeds. This is achieved by using a great deal of CPU processing time, which is not a problem for our platform due to the fact that it uses clusters of powerful servers working together. One more advantage of LZ4 is that it enables us to create backups more speedily and on lower disk space, so we can have multiple daily backups of your files and databases and their generation won't influence the performance of the servers. In this way, we could always restore all of the content that you may have erased by accident.

Data Compression in Semi-dedicated Servers

The semi-dedicated server plans that we supply are created on a powerful cloud hosting platform which runs on the ZFS file system. ZFS employs a compression algorithm known as LZ4 that surpasses any other algorithm out there in terms of speed and data compression ratio when it comes to processing website content. This is valid especially when data is uncompressed as LZ4 does that more rapidly than it would be to read uncompressed data from a hard disk drive and for that reason, Internet sites running on a platform where LZ4 is enabled will function at a higher speed. We are able to take full advantage of the feature regardless of the fact that it needs quite a great deal of CPU processing time as our platform uses a wide range of powerful servers working together and we never make accounts on just a single machine like the vast majority of companies do. There is one more benefit of using LZ4 - given that it compresses data rather well and does that very fast, we can also make several daily backups of all accounts without affecting the performance of the servers and keep them for 30 days. In this way, you will always be able to restore any content that you delete by accident.