The term data compression describes reducing the number of bits of information which needs to be stored or transmitted. This can be achieved with or without the loss of information, which means that what will be removed during the compression can be either redundant data or unneeded one. When the data is uncompressed afterwards, in the first case the information and its quality shall be identical, while in the second case the quality shall be worse. You can find various compression algorithms that are more efficient for various type of data. Compressing and uncompressing data frequently takes lots of processing time, so the server executing the action needs to have ample resources in order to be able to process your info fast enough. A simple example how information can be compressed is to store just how many sequential positions should have 1 and just how many should have 0 inside the binary code as an alternative to storing the actual 1s and 0s.

Data Compression in Hosting

The ZFS file system which runs on our cloud Internet hosting platform uses a compression algorithm named LZ4. The aforementioned is a lot faster and better than any other algorithm available on the market, especially for compressing and uncompressing non-binary data i.e. web content. LZ4 even uncompresses data faster than it is read from a hard drive, which improves the performance of Internet sites hosted on ZFS-based platforms. Since the algorithm compresses data quite well and it does that very fast, we are able to generate several backups of all the content kept in the hosting accounts on our servers every day. Both your content and its backups will take reduced space and since both ZFS and LZ4 work very fast, the backup generation will not affect the performance of the web hosting servers where your content will be stored.

Data Compression in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you host your sites in a semi-dedicated hosting account with our firm, you will be able to experience the advantages of LZ4 - the powerful compression algorithm used by the ZFS file system that is behind our advanced cloud web hosting platform. What separates LZ4 from all the other algorithms out there is that it has an improved compression ratio and it is much quicker, especially when it comes to uncompressing web content. It does that even quicker than uncompressed info can be read from a hard drive, so your Internet sites will perform better. The higher speed comes at the expense of using plenty of CPU processing time, that is not an issue for our platform because it consists of multiple clusters working together. In addition to the superior performance, you will also have multiple daily backups at your disposal, so you'll be able to recover any deleted content with a few clicks. The backups are available for a whole month and we can afford to store them since they need significantly less space than conventional backups.