Data compression is the decrease of the number of bits which have to be saved or transmitted and the process is quite important in the web hosting field as info kept on hard disk drives is generally compressed in order to take less space. You can find different algorithms for compressing information and they have different efficiency based on the content. A lot of them remove only the redundant bits, so no data will be lost, while others remove unnecessary bits, which leads to worse quality when your data is uncompressed. The process needs a lot of processing time, which means that a hosting server has to be powerful enough to be able to compress and uncompress data right away. An instance how binary code can be compressed is by "remembering" that there're five sequential 1s, for example, rather than storing all five 1s.
Data Compression in Cloud Web Hosting
The cloud internet hosting platform where your cloud web hosting account will be made uses the innovative ZFS file system. The LZ4 compression method that the aforementioned uses is superior in numerous aspects, and not only does it compress info better than any compression method that a number of other file systems use, but it is also much faster. The gains may be significant particularly on compressible content which includes website files. Although it could sound irrational, uncompressing data with LZ4 is faster than reading uncompressed info from a hard disk drive, so the performance of any site hosted on our servers will be better. The better and faster compression rates also make it possible for us to make a large number of daily backups of the entire content in every single hosting account, so in the event you delete anything by mistake, the last backup which we have won't be more than a few hours old. This can be done as the backups take much less space and their generation is fast enough, so as to not affect the performance of our servers.
Data Compression in Semi-dedicated Hosting
If you host your websites in a semi-dedicated hosting account from our company, you'll be able to experience the advantages of LZ4 - the powerful compression algorithm employed by the ZFS file system which is behind our advanced cloud Internet hosting platform. What differentiates LZ4 from all other algorithms out there is that it has a higher compression ratio and it is way quicker, particularly with regard to uncompressing web content. It does that even quicker than uncompressed data can be read from a hard disk drive, so your websites will perform faster. The higher speed comes at the expense of using a lot of CPU processing time, that is not an issue for our platform because it consists of a large number of clusters working together. In combination with the superior performance, you'll also have multiple daily backup copies at your disposal, so you could restore any deleted content with just a few clicks. The backups are available for a whole month and we can afford to store them since they take considerably less space than traditional backups.