Data compression is the compacting of information by lowering the number of bits that are stored or transmitted. This way, the compressed information needs substantially less disk space than the original one, so more content could be stored using the same amount of space. You'll find different compression algorithms that function in different ways and with some of them only the redundant bits are deleted, therefore once the data is uncompressed, there's no decrease in quality. Others remove unnecessary bits, but uncompressing the data later on will lead to reduced quality compared to the original. Compressing and uncompressing content requires a significant amount of system resources, particularly CPU processing time, so each and every web hosting platform that uses compression in real time needs to have enough power to support this attribute. An example how info can be compressed is to replace a binary code such as 111111 with 6x1 i.e. "remembering" what number of sequential 1s or 0s there should be instead of storing the whole code.

Data Compression in Cloud Hosting

The cloud hosting platform where your cloud hosting account will be generated works by using the innovative ZFS file system. The LZ4 compression method that the aforementioned uses is superior in numerous aspects, and not only does it compress data better than any compression method that many other file systems use, but it is also a lot quicker. The gains can be significant especially on compressible content such as website files. While it may sound unreasonable, uncompressing data with LZ4 is quicker than reading uncompressed info from a hard disk, so the performance of each website hosted on our servers shall be upgraded. The better and faster compression rates also make it possible for us to produce a number of daily backups of the whole content in each Internet hosting account, so should you delete anything by mistake, the last backup that we have will not be more than several 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 that 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 will uncompress data much faster than the same data can be read from a hard disk drive if it were uncompressed. In this way, using LZ4 will boost every site that runs on a platform where this algorithm is present. This high performance requires lots of CPU processing time, that's provided by the large number of clusters working together as part of our platform. In addition, LZ4 enables us to generate several backups of your content every day and keep them for a month as they'll take a reduced amount of space than typical backups and will be generated much quicker without loading the servers.