Data compression is the compacting of info by lowering the number of bits which are stored or transmitted. This way, the compressed information needs much less disk space than the original one, so extra content could be stored on the same amount of space. You will find many different compression algorithms that function in different ways and with a lot of them just the redundant bits are removed, so once the data is uncompressed, there is no decrease in quality. Others remove unneeded bits, but uncompressing the data later will lead to lower quality in comparison with the original. Compressing and uncompressing content requires a large amount of system resources, in particular CPU processing time, so each and every Internet hosting platform which employs compression in real time needs to have adequate power to support that feature. An example how data can be compressed is to substitute a binary code such as 111111 with 6x1 i.e. "remembering" what number of consecutive 1s or 0s there should be instead of keeping the whole code.

Data Compression in Cloud Website Hosting

The cloud internet hosting platform where your cloud website hosting account will be generated works by using the cutting-edge ZFS file system. The LZ4 compression method which the latter uses is greater in numerous aspects, and not only does it compress data better than any compression method that many other file systems use, but it is also considerably faster. The benefits are significant in particular on compressible content such as website files. Although it could sound unreasonable, uncompressing data with LZ4 is faster than reading uncompressed info from a hard drive, so the performance of each and every Internet site hosted on our servers shall be better. The better and quicker compression rates also allow us to make a number of daily backups of the whole content in each hosting account, so in the event you delete something by mistake, the last backup which we have won't be more than a couple of hours old. This is possible because the backups take a lot less space and their generation is quick enough, so as to not change the performance of the servers.

Data Compression in Semi-dedicated Hosting

The ZFS file system that runs on the cloud platform where your semi-dedicated hosting account will be created uses a powerful compression algorithm called LZ4. It's among the best algorithms out there and positively the best one when it comes to compressing and uncompressing website content, as its ratio is very high and it will uncompress data much faster than the same data can be read from a hard drive if it were uncompressed. This way, using LZ4 will accelerate every website that runs on a platform where the algorithm is enabled. This high performance requires plenty of CPU processing time, which is provided by the numerous clusters working together as a part of our platform. Furthermore, LZ4 allows us to generate several backup copies of your content every day and have them for one month as they will take much less space than regular backups and will be generated considerably faster without loading the servers.