Data compression is the compacting of information by reducing the number of bits which are stored or transmitted. Consequently, the compressed information will require less disk space than the initial one, so more content might be stored on the same amount of space. There are many different compression algorithms that function in different ways and with some of them just the redundant bits are erased, which means that once the information is uncompressed, there's no loss of quality. Others erase excessive bits, but uncompressing the data at a later time will result in reduced quality in comparison with the original. Compressing and uncompressing content needs a large amount of system resources, especially CPU processing time, therefore each and every Internet hosting platform that employs compression in real time needs to have enough power to support that attribute. An example how information can be compressed is to substitute a binary code such as 111111 with 6x1 i.e. "remembering" how many sequential 1s or 0s there should be instead of saving the whole code.

Data Compression in Cloud Web Hosting

The cloud internet hosting platform where your cloud web hosting account will be made works by using the impressive ZFS file system. The LZ4 compression method which the latter uses is greater in numerous aspects, and not only does it compress info better than any compression method which a variety of other file systems use, but it's also considerably faster. The gains may be significant particularly on compressible content such as website files. Even though it could sound illogical, uncompressing data with LZ4 is quicker than reading uncompressed data from a hard disk, so the performance of each site hosted on our servers shall be upgraded. The better and quicker compression rates also allow us to generate a large number of daily backups of the full content in each and every hosting account, so if you delete something by accident, the last backup that we have will not be more than several hours old. This can be done because the backups take much less space and their generation is quick enough, to not change the performance of the servers.

Data Compression in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Your semi-dedicated hosting account will be created on a cloud platform that is run on the innovative ZFS file system. The aforementioned uses a compression algorithm called LZ4, that's much better than alternative algorithms with regard to compression ratio and speed. The gain is apparent particularly when data is being uncompressed and not only is LZ4 much faster than other algorithms, but it is also faster in uncompressing data than a system is in reading from a hard disk drive. This is the reason why Internet sites running on a platform that uses LZ4 compression perform faster since the algorithm is most effective when it processes compressible data i.e. website content. An additional advantage of using LZ4 is that the backups of the semi-dedicated accounts which we keep require a lot less space and they're generated quicker, which enables us to keep multiple daily backups of all your files and databases.