The term data compression refers to lowering the number of bits of info which needs to be stored or transmitted. You can do this with or without losing information, so what will be removed in the course of the compression can be either redundant data or unnecessary one. When the data is uncompressed afterwards, in the first case the data and the quality shall be the same, whereas in the second case the quality will be worse. There're different compression algorithms that are better for different kind of information. Compressing and uncompressing data often takes plenty of processing time, therefore the server carrying out the action needs to have enough resources to be able to process your data quick enough. One simple example how information can be compressed is to store how many sequential positions should have 1 and how many should have 0 within the binary code rather than storing the particular 1s and 0s.

Data Compression in Cloud Web Hosting

The compression algorithm employed by the ZFS file system which runs on our cloud web hosting platform is known as LZ4. It can enhance the performance of any website hosted in a cloud web hosting account with us since not only does it compress info more efficiently than algorithms employed by various file systems, but it also uncompresses data at speeds which are higher than the hard disk reading speeds. This is achieved by using a great deal of CPU processing time, which is not a problem for our platform since it uses clusters of powerful servers working together. A further advantage of LZ4 is that it enables us to generate backups much more quickly and on less disk space, so we can have a couple of daily backups of your databases and files and their generation will not affect the performance of the servers. That way, we can always restore all the content that you may have erased by mistake.

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 among the best algorithms out there and certainly the best one when it comes to compressing and uncompressing web content, as its ratio is very high and it can uncompress data at a higher speed than the same data can be read from a hard drive if it were uncompressed. That way, using LZ4 will boost every Internet site that runs on a platform where the algorithm is enabled. The high performance requires lots of CPU processing time, that is provided by the multitude of clusters working together as part of our platform. In addition to that, LZ4 allows us to generate several backup copies of your content every day and keep them for one month as they'll take much less space than typical backups and will be created much quicker without loading the servers.