The term data compression describes reducing the number of bits of information that should be saved or transmitted. This can be done with or without the loss of data, so what will be removed at the time of the compression will be either redundant data or unneeded one. When the data is uncompressed afterwards, in the first case the content and the quality will be identical, whereas in the second case the quality will be worse. There're different compression algorithms that are more efficient for various type of information. Compressing and uncompressing data frequently takes lots of processing time, so the server performing the action must have plenty of resources in order to be able to process the info fast enough. An example how information can be compressed is to store just how many sequential positions should have 1 and just how many should have 0 within the binary code instead of storing the actual 1s and 0s.

Data Compression in Hosting

The compression algorithm which we employ on the cloud hosting platform where your new hosting account will be created is called LZ4 and it's applied by the revolutionary ZFS file system that powers the platform. The algorithm is much better than the ones other file systems work with since its compression ratio is a lot higher and it processes data considerably faster. The speed is most noticeable when content is being uncompressed since this happens at a faster rate than info can be read from a hard disk. Therefore, LZ4 improves the performance of every Internet site hosted on a server that uses the algorithm. We take advantage of LZ4 in one more way - its speed and compression ratio allow us to make a couple of daily backup copies of the whole content of all accounts and store them for a month. Not only do our backup copies take less space, but their generation does not slow the servers down like it often happens with various other file systems.

Data Compression in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you host your Internet sites in a semi-dedicated hosting account from our firm, you'll be able to experience the advantages of LZ4 - the powerful compression algorithm employed by the ZFS file system that's behind our advanced cloud Internet hosting platform. What separates LZ4 from all the other algorithms out there is that it has a better compression ratio and it is much faster, particularly with regard to uncompressing web content. It does that even quicker than uncompressed info can be read from a hard disk drive, so your websites will perform faster. The higher speed is at the expense of using a great deal of CPU processing time, that's not an issue for our platform as it consists of numerous clusters working together. Together with the improved performance, you will also have multiple daily backup copies at your disposal, so you'll be able to recover any deleted content with just a few clicks. The backups are available for a whole month and we can afford to keep them as they take significantly less space than standard backups.