Data compression is the decrease of the number of bits that should be saved or transmitted and this particular process is really important in the internet hosting field since data stored on hard disk drives is usually compressed so as to take less space. You can find many different algorithms for compressing info and they offer different efficiency depending on the content. A number of them remove only the redundant bits, so no data can be lost, while others delete unneeded bits, which leads to worse quality when your data is uncompressed. This method needs plenty of processing time, so a hosting server should be powerful enough to be able to compress and uncompress data in real time. An illustration how binary code could be compressed is by "remembering" that there're five sequential 1s, for example, as an alternative to storing all five 1s.

Data Compression in Cloud Website Hosting

The cloud web hosting platform where your cloud website hosting account shall be generated works by using the revolutionary ZFS file system. The LZ4 compression method which the aforementioned uses is superior in many aspects, and not only does it compress info better than any compression method that a number of other file systems use, but it is also considerably faster. The benefits may be significant in particular on compressible content which includes website files. Although it may sound unreasonable, uncompressing data with LZ4 is faster than reading uncompressed data from a hard drive, so the performance of each and every Internet site hosted on our servers shall be enhanced. The better and quicker compression rates also allow us to generate a number of daily backups of the whole content in every single Internet hosting account, so if you delete something by mistake, the last backup that we have will not be more than a few hours old. This is possible because the backups take considerably less space and their generation is fast enough, so as to not affect the performance of the servers.

Data Compression in Semi-dedicated Hosting

The semi-dedicated hosting plans that we supply are created on a powerful cloud platform that runs on the ZFS file system. ZFS uses a compression algorithm named LZ4 that is better than any other algorithm available in terms of speed and compression ratio when it comes to processing web content. This is valid especially when data is uncompressed as LZ4 does that a lot faster than it would be to read uncompressed data from a hard drive and as a result, sites running on a platform where LZ4 is enabled will function quicker. We're able to take advantage of this feature despite of the fact that it needs quite a great deal of CPU processing time as our platform uses a huge number of powerful servers working together and we do not make accounts on just a single machine like many companies do. There's one more advantage of using LZ4 - considering the fact that it compresses data really well and does that speedily, we can also make several daily backups of all accounts without affecting the performance of the servers and keep them for a whole month. By doing this, you will always be able to bring back any content that you delete by accident.