Data compression is the lowering of the number of bits that have to be stored or transmitted and this process is rather important in the internet hosting field because information kept on hard drives is typically compressed in order to take less space. There are various algorithms for compressing information and they offer different effectiveness based on the content. A lot of them remove just the redundant bits, so that no data will be lost, while others erase unneeded bits, which results in worse quality when the particular data is uncompressed. This process requires plenty of processing time, so an internet hosting server should be powerful enough so as to be able to compress and uncompress data instantly. An example how binary code could be compressed is by "remembering" that there're five sequential 1s, for example, as an alternative to storing all five 1s.
Data Compression in Cloud Hosting
The cloud internet hosting platform where your cloud hosting account is made uses the revolutionary ZFS file system. The LZ4 compression method that the aforementioned uses is superior in a number of aspects, and not only does it compress information better than any compression method that a number of other file systems use, but it is also a lot quicker. The gains will be significant in particular on compressible content like website files. Although it could sound illogical, uncompressing data with LZ4 is quicker than reading uncompressed data from a hard disk, so the performance of every Internet site hosted on our servers will be upgraded. The better and faster compression rates also make it possible for us to make a number of daily backups of the entire content in each Internet hosting account, so if you delete anything by mistake, the last backup which we have will not be more than a few hours old. This can be done as the backups take much less space and their generation is fast enough, to not change the performance of the servers.
Data Compression in Semi-dedicated Servers
The ZFS file system that runs on the cloud platform where your semi-dedicated server account will be created uses a powerful compression algorithm called LZ4. It is among the best algorithms out there and positively the most efficient one when it comes to compressing and uncompressing web content, as its ratio is very high and it will uncompress data at a faster rate than the same data can be read from a hard drive if it were uncompressed. In this way, using LZ4 will speed up any kind of Internet site that runs on a platform where this algorithm is enabled. The high performance requires lots of CPU processing time, which is provided by the numerous clusters working together as part of our platform. What's more, LZ4 enables us to generate several backup copies of your content every day and save them for a month as they will take a smaller amount of space than typical backups and will be generated considerably faster without loading the servers.