Data compression is the compacting of data by decreasing the number of bits which are stored or transmitted. Thus, the compressed info will need less disk space than the original one, so much more content could be stored using identical amount of space. You'll find different compression algorithms that function in different ways and with a lot of them just the redundant bits are removed, which means that once the info is uncompressed, there is no loss of quality. Others remove excessive bits, but uncompressing the data at a later time will result in reduced quality compared to the original. Compressing and uncompressing content requires a large amount of system resources, particularly CPU processing time, therefore every web hosting platform that employs compression in real time should have enough power to support that feature. An example how information can be compressed is to replace a binary code such as 111111 with 6x1 i.e. "remembering" what number of consecutive 1s or 0s there should be instead of saving the whole code.

Data Compression in Cloud Hosting

The cloud internet hosting platform where your cloud hosting account will be created employs the cutting-edge ZFS file system. The LZ4 compression method that the aforementioned employs is superior in numerous aspects, and not only does it compress information better than any compression method which many other file systems use, but it's also quicker. The gains are significant in particular on compressible content which includes website files. Although it may sound unreasonable, uncompressing data with LZ4 is quicker than reading uncompressed info from a hard disk drive, so the performance of any Internet site hosted on our servers will be improved. The better and faster compression rates also make it possible for us to produce multiple daily backups of the full content in every single hosting account, so in the event you delete something by accident, the last back-up copy which we have won't be more than a few hours old. This is possible as the backups take much less space and their generation is fast enough, to not affect the performance of the servers.

Data Compression in Semi-dedicated Servers

Your semi-dedicated server account will be created on a cloud platform that runs on the leading-edge ZFS file system. The aforementioned uses a compression algorithm called LZ4, that is far better than all other algorithms with regard to compression ratio and speed. The gain is noticeable particularly when data is being uncompressed and not only is LZ4 faster than other algorithms, but it is also faster in uncompressing data than a system is in reading from a hard drive. This is the reason why Internet sites running on a platform that uses LZ4 compression perform better since the algorithm is most effective when it processes compressible data i.e. web content. One more advantage of using LZ4 is that the backups of the semi-dedicated accounts that we keep require a lot less space and they're generated a lot faster, which allows us to have a couple of daily backups of your files and databases.