The term data compression describes reducing the number of bits of information that has to be stored or transmitted. This can be done with or without losing data, which means that what will be removed throughout the compression will be either redundant data or unneeded one. When the data is uncompressed later on, in the first case the content and the quality will be identical, whereas in the second case the quality shall be worse. There're different compression algorithms that are better for various kind of data. Compressing and uncompressing data usually takes a lot of processing time, which means that the server carrying out the action must have adequate resources to be able to process your data fast enough. One simple example how information can be compressed is to store how many sequential positions should have 1 and just how many should have 0 in the binary code rather than storing the actual 1s and 0s.

Data Compression in Hosting

The cloud web hosting platform where your hosting account will be made employs the outstanding ZFS file system. The LZ4 compression method which the aforementioned uses is superior in a number of aspects, and not only does it compress info better than any compression method which some other file systems use, but it is also considerably quicker. The gains will be significant in particular on compressible content like website files. While it may sound illogical, uncompressing data with LZ4 is quicker than reading uncompressed data from a hard disk, so the performance of every website hosted on our servers will be enhanced. The better and quicker compression rates also make it possible for us to generate numerous daily backups of the whole content in every single web hosting account, so in the event you delete something by accident, the last backup which we have will not be more than several hours old. This can be done as the backups take significantly less space and their generation is quick enough, so as to not influence the performance of the servers.

Data Compression in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you host your sites in a semi-dedicated hosting account with our firm, you can experience the advantages of LZ4 - the powerful compression algorithm employed by the ZFS file system which is behind our advanced cloud Internet hosting platform. What differentiates LZ4 from all of the other algorithms out there is that it has a higher compression ratio and it is way quicker, particularly when it comes to uncompressing web content. It does that even faster than uncompressed info can be read from a hard drive, so your sites will perform better. The higher speed is at the expense of using a considerable amount of CPU processing time, that's not an issue for our platform since it consists of multiple clusters working together. In combination with the superior performance, you'll have multiple daily backups at your disposal, so you can recover any deleted content with just a couple of clicks. The backups are available for a whole month and we can afford to keep them because they take considerably less space than conventional backups.