Data compression is the lowering of the number of bits which should be saved or transmitted and this process is rather important in the internet hosting field since info kept on hard disk drives is often compressed so as to take less space. You will find various algorithms for compressing info and they offer different efficiency based on the content. A lot of them remove only the redundant bits, so that no data will be lost, while others delete unnecessary bits, which results in worse quality when your data is uncompressed. The process consumes plenty of processing time, which means that a hosting server needs to be powerful enough in order to be able to compress and uncompress data right away. An illustration how binary code could be compressed is by "remembering" that there're five sequential 1s, for example, in contrast to storing all five 1s.
Data Compression in Shared Hosting
The cloud web hosting platform where your shared hosting account will be generated uses the revolutionary ZFS file system. The LZ4 compression method that the aforementioned employs is better in various aspects, and not only does it compress info better than any compression method which other file systems use, but it's also much faster. The benefits may be significant particularly on compressible content which includes website files. While it may sound irrational, uncompressing data with LZ4 is faster than reading uncompressed data from a hard drive, so the performance of every site hosted on our servers shall be improved. The better and quicker compression rates also allow us to generate numerous daily backups of the whole content in each Internet hosting account, so in the event you delete something by mistake, the last back-up copy which we have will not be more than a couple of hours old. This can be done as the backups take considerably less space and their generation is quick enough, so as to not affect the performance of our servers.
Data Compression in Semi-dedicated Servers
The ZFS file system which runs on the cloud platform where your semi-dedicated server account will be created uses a powerful compression algorithm called LZ4. It is one of 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 can uncompress data quicker than the same data can be read from a hard disk drive if it were uncompressed. In this way, using LZ4 will quicken every Internet site that runs on a platform where this algorithm is present. This high performance requires plenty of CPU processing time, that is provided by the numerous clusters working together as a part of our platform. In addition to that, LZ4 enables us to generate several backup copies of your content every day and keep them for one month as they'll take a smaller amount of space than regular backups and will be created considerably quicker without loading the servers.