Data compression is the decrease of the number of bits which have to be saved or transmitted and this particular process is rather important in the web hosting field due to the fact that information located on hard disk drives is often compressed in order to take less space. You'll find different algorithms for compressing info and they offer different effectiveness depending on the content. Many of them remove only the redundant bits, so no data can be lost, while others delete unnecessary bits, which results in worse quality once your data is uncompressed. This process consumes plenty of processing time, which means that a hosting server should be powerful enough to be able to compress and uncompress data in real time. An illustration how binary code may be compressed is by "remembering" that there are five sequential 1s, for example, as an alternative to storing all five 1s.

Data Compression in Cloud Website Hosting

The cloud web hosting platform where your cloud website hosting account is generated uses the impressive ZFS file system. The LZ4 compression method which the aforementioned uses is superior in various aspects, and not only does it compress data better than any compression method that similar file systems use, but it is also much quicker. The benefits will be significant particularly on compressible content like website files. Even though it could sound irrational, uncompressing data with LZ4 is faster than reading uncompressed info from a hard drive, so the performance of any Internet site hosted on our servers will be enhanced. The better and faster compression rates also make it possible for us to generate multiple daily backups of the entire content in every single Internet hosting account, so in the event you delete anything by mistake, the last back-up copy which we have will not be more than a few hours old. This is possible because the backups take a lot less space and their generation is quick enough, to not affect the performance of the servers.

Data Compression in Semi-dedicated Hosting

The semi-dedicated hosting plans that we supply are created on a powerful cloud hosting platform that runs on the ZFS file system. ZFS employs a compression algorithm known as LZ4 that is better than any other algorithm available in terms of speed and compression ratio when it comes to processing website content. This is valid particularly when data is uncompressed because LZ4 does that faster than it would be to read uncompressed data from a hard disk drive and owing to this, Internet sites running on a platform where LZ4 is present will work at a higher speed. We're able to benefit from the feature despite of the fact that it needs quite a great deal of CPU processing time as our platform uses numerous powerful servers working together and we never create accounts on a single machine like the vast majority of companies do. There's a further reward of using LZ4 - since it compresses data rather well and does that very quickly, we can also generate multiple daily backups of all accounts without influencing the performance of the servers and keep them for a month. That way, you will always be able to restore any content that you erase by accident.