The term data compression identifies lowering the number of bits of data which has to be saved or transmitted. This can be achieved with or without losing info, so what will be erased during the compression will be either redundant data or unnecessary one. When the data is uncompressed later on, in the first case the data and the quality will be the same, whereas in the second case the quality shall be worse. You can find different compression algorithms that are more efficient for various kind of information. Compressing and uncompressing data frequently takes lots of processing time, so the server executing the action needs to have ample resources to be able to process your data quick enough. A 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 instead of storing the actual 1s and 0s.

Data Compression in Website 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 Internet site hosted in a website hosting account with us because not only does it compress info much better than algorithms employed by various other file systems, but it also uncompresses data at speeds that are higher than the HDD reading speeds. This can be done by using a lot of CPU processing time, which is not a problem for our platform because it uses clusters of powerful servers working together. An additional advantage of LZ4 is that it enables us to make backups a lot faster and on lower disk space, so we can have multiple daily backups of your databases and files and their generation will not change the performance of the servers. In this way, we could always recover the content that you may have removed by accident.

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 is one of the best algorithms out there and definitely the best one when it comes to compressing and uncompressing web content, as its ratio is very high and it can uncompress data a lot faster than the same data can be read from a hard disk drive if it were uncompressed. Thus, using LZ4 will accelerate any Internet site that runs on a platform where the algorithm is present. This high performance requires lots of CPU processing time, that is provided by the multitude of clusters working together as part of our platform. Furthermore, LZ4 enables us to generate several backup copies of your content every day and keep them for a month as they'll take a reduced amount of space than regular backups and will be generated much more quickly without loading the servers.