The term data compression means reducing the number of bits of data that has to be saved or transmitted. This can be done with or without losing information, so what will be erased throughout the compression shall be either redundant data or unnecessary one. When the data is uncompressed subsequently, in the first case the information and its quality shall be identical, while in the second case the quality will be worse. You will find different compression algorithms that are more effective for different type of information. Compressing and uncompressing data frequently takes plenty of processing time, so the server executing the action must have adequate resources in order to be able to process the info fast enough. A simple example how information can be compressed is to store how many sequential positions should have 1 and just how many should have 0 inside the binary code as an alternative to storing the particular 1s and 0s.

Data Compression in Cloud Hosting

The cloud web hosting platform where your cloud hosting account is made uses the advanced ZFS file system. The LZ4 compression method which the aforementioned employs is better in various aspects, and not only does it compress data better than any compression method that many other file systems use, but it's also quicker. The benefits can be significant especially on compressible content which includes website files. Even though it may sound irrational, uncompressing data with LZ4 is quicker than reading uncompressed info from a hard disk drive, so the performance of every site hosted on our servers shall be upgraded. The better and faster compression rates also allow us to produce a large number of daily backups of the full content in each web hosting account, so should you delete anything by mistake, the last backup which we have won't be more than a couple of hours old. This is possible because the backups take considerably less space and their generation is fast enough, so as to not change the performance of the servers.

Data Compression in Semi-dedicated Hosting

The ZFS file system that runs on the cloud platform where your semi-dedicated hosting 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 much faster than the same data can be read from a hard drive if it were uncompressed. Thus, using LZ4 will accelerate every Internet site that runs on a platform where the algorithm is enabled. The high performance requires lots of CPU processing time, that's provided by the multitude of clusters working together as part of our platform. In addition to that, LZ4 allows us to generate several backups of your content every day and keep them for one month as they will take a smaller amount of space than typical backups and will be created much more quickly without loading the servers.