Data compression is the compacting of data by decreasing the number of bits which are stored or transmitted. Because of this, the compressed data requires much less disk space than the initial one, so additional content might be stored using the same amount of space. You will find different compression algorithms that work in different ways and with a lot of them just the redundant bits are deleted, which means that once the info is uncompressed, there's no decrease in quality. Others delete excessive bits, but uncompressing the data at a later time will result in reduced quality in comparison with the original. Compressing and uncompressing content takes a large amount of system resources, especially CPU processing time, so every hosting platform that employs compression in real time should have sufficient 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" the number of sequential 1s or 0s there should be instead of storing the actual code.

Data Compression in Cloud Hosting

The compression algorithm used by the ZFS file system which runs on our cloud web hosting platform is named LZ4. It can boost the performance of any Internet site hosted in a cloud hosting account on our end as not only does it compress data much better than algorithms used by various file systems, but it also uncompresses data at speeds that are higher than the hard disk reading speeds. This is achieved by using a great deal of CPU processing time, that is not a problem for our platform considering the fact that it uses clusters of powerful servers working together. One more advantage of LZ4 is that it enables us to create backups a lot faster and on less disk space, so we will have a couple of daily backups of your databases and files and their generation will not influence the performance of the servers. That way, we can always recover any content that you could have erased by mistake.

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 is among the best algorithms out there and positively the best one when it comes to compressing and uncompressing web content, as its ratio is very high and it can uncompress data faster than the same data can be read from a hard drive if it were uncompressed. That way, using LZ4 will accelerate any Internet site that runs on a platform where the algorithm is present. This high performance requires plenty of CPU processing time, that is provided by the multitude of clusters working together as part of our platform. In addition, LZ4 allows us to generate several backups of your content every day and have them for a month as they will take much less space than typical backups and will be created much more quickly without loading the servers.