Data compression is the decrease of the number of bits which should be stored or transmitted and this process is quite important in the internet hosting field because info kept on hard drives is usually compressed to take less space. There are different algorithms for compressing info and they offer different efficiency based upon the content. A lot of them remove only the redundant bits, so no data can be lost, while others erase unnecessary bits, which leads to worse quality when the particular data is uncompressed. This process employs a lot of processing time, therefore a web hosting server has to be powerful enough in order to be able to compress and uncompress data right away. One example how binary code can be compressed is by "remembering" that there're five sequential 1s, for example, as an alternative to storing all five 1s.

Data Compression in Hosting

The compression algorithm used by the ZFS file system that runs on our cloud internet hosting platform is named LZ4. It can improve the performance of any site hosted in a hosting account on our end since not only does it compress data much better than algorithms used by various other file systems, but it also uncompresses data at speeds which are higher than the hard drive reading speeds. This can be done by using a great deal of CPU processing time, which is not a problem for our platform because it uses clusters of powerful servers working together. One more advantage of LZ4 is that it allows us to create backup copies more speedily and on lower disk space, so we will have multiple daily backups of your databases and files and their generation won't affect the performance of the servers. This way, we can always recover the content that you may have deleted by accident.

Data Compression in Semi-dedicated Servers

In case you host your Internet sites in a semi-dedicated server account from our firm, 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 distinguishes LZ4 from all other algorithms out there is that it has a higher compression ratio and it is considerably faster, especially with regard to uncompressing web content. It does that even faster than uncompressed data can be read from a hard disk drive, so your websites will perform better. The higher speed comes at the expense of using a great deal of CPU processing time, that's not an issue for our platform as it consists of a large number of clusters working together. Along with the superior performance, you will also have multiple daily backup copies at your disposal, so you'll be able to recover any deleted content with several clicks. The backups are available for an entire month and we can afford to store them as they take considerably less space than conventional backups.