Data compression is the reduction of the number of bits which should be stored or transmitted and this particular process is really important in the internet hosting field as info filed on hard disks is usually compressed in order to take less space. You will find various algorithms for compressing data and they provide different effectiveness based on the content. Many of them remove only the redundant bits, so no data will be lost, while others erase unnecessary bits, which leads to worse quality once the particular data is uncompressed. The method uses plenty of processing time, therefore an internet hosting server should be powerful enough in order to be able to compress and uncompress data in real time. An example how binary code could be compressed is by "remembering" that there're five consecutive 1s, for example, rather than storing all five 1s.

Data Compression in Cloud Hosting

The compression algorithm used by the ZFS file system which runs on our cloud web hosting platform is known as LZ4. It can upgrade the performance of any website hosted in a cloud hosting account on our end as not only does it compress data more effectively than algorithms used by various file systems, but it uncompresses data at speeds that are higher than the hard disk drive reading speeds. This is achieved by using a great deal of CPU processing time, which is not a problem for our platform considering the fact that it uses clusters of powerful servers working together. A further advantage of LZ4 is that it enables us to make backup copies more speedily and on reduced disk space, so we shall have a couple of daily backups of your files and databases and their generation won't change the performance of the servers. In this way, we can always recover the content that you could have removed by accident.

Data Compression in Semi-dedicated Servers

The semi-dedicated server plans which we offer are created on a powerful cloud platform which runs on the ZFS file system. ZFS employs a compression algorithm known as LZ4 that outperforms any other algorithm on the market in terms of speed and compression ratio when it comes to processing website content. This is valid particularly when data is uncompressed because LZ4 does that quicker than it would be to read uncompressed data from a hard drive and for that reason, Internet sites running on a platform where LZ4 is enabled will function faster. We are able to take advantage of this feature although it needs quite a great deal of CPU processing time because our platform uses a huge number of powerful servers working together and we don't make accounts on a single machine like the majority of companies do. There's a further advantage of using LZ4 - since it compresses data really well and does that extremely fast, we can also generate multiple daily backups of all accounts without influencing the performance of the servers and keep them for a whole month. By doing this, you will always be able to restore any content that you delete by accident.