Data compression is the decrease of the number of bits which should be stored or transmitted and this process is very important in the web hosting field since information stored on hard drives is often compressed to take less space. You will find different algorithms for compressing info and they offer different efficiency based upon the content. A lot of them remove only the redundant bits, so no data can be lost, while others erase unnecessary bits, which results in worse quality once your data is uncompressed. The method requires plenty of processing time, which means that a web hosting server has to be powerful enough to be able to compress and uncompress data right away. An illustration how binary code may be compressed is by "remembering" that there're five sequential 1s, for example, in contrast to storing all five 1s.

Data Compression in Cloud Hosting

The compression algorithm that we use on the cloud internet hosting platform where your new cloud hosting account shall be created is named LZ4 and it's used by the exceptional ZFS file system which powers the platform. The algorithm is much better than the ones other file systems work with since its compression ratio is much higher and it processes data significantly quicker. The speed is most noticeable when content is being uncompressed as this happens even faster than data can be read from a hard drive. Consequently, LZ4 improves the performance of any Internet site stored on a server that uses this particular algorithm. We take advantage of LZ4 in an additional way - its speed and compression ratio allow us to generate a number of daily backups of the full content of all accounts and keep them for one month. Not only do our backup copies take less space, but also their generation does not slow the servers down like it can often happen with various other file systems.

Data Compression in Semi-dedicated Hosting

In case you host your Internet sites in a semi-dedicated hosting account with our company, you can experience the advantages of LZ4 - the powerful compression algorithm used by the ZFS file system that's behind our advanced cloud hosting platform. What distinguishes LZ4 from all of the other algorithms out there is that it has a better compression ratio and it is much quicker, particularly with regard to uncompressing website content. It does that even quicker than uncompressed info can be read from a hard drive, so your websites will perform better. The higher speed is at the expense of using a considerable amount of CPU processing time, that's not a problem for our platform because it consists of a lot of clusters working together. Along with the superior performance, you'll have multiple daily backup copies at your disposal, so you can restore any deleted content with just a couple of clicks. The backup copies are available for an entire month and we can afford to store them because they take considerably less space than conventional backups.