Data compression is the lowering of the number of bits which should be stored or transmitted and the process is very important in the internet hosting field since information filed on hard disks is generally compressed to take less space. You'll find various algorithms for compressing information and they provide different effectiveness based on the content. A number of them remove just the redundant bits, so no data will be lost, while others delete unnecessary bits, which leads to worse quality once the particular data is uncompressed. This process employs a lot of processing time, which means that a web hosting server should be powerful enough to be able to compress and uncompress data in real time. An example how binary code can be compressed is by "remembering" that there are five consecutive 1s, for example, rather than storing all five 1s.

Data Compression in Cloud Web Hosting

The compression algorithm which we use on the cloud hosting platform where your new cloud web hosting account shall be created is known as LZ4 and it's applied by the advanced ZFS file system which powers the platform. The algorithm is greater than the ones other file systems use as its compression ratio is much higher and it processes data significantly faster. The speed is most noticeable when content is being uncompressed since this happens faster than info can be read from a hard drive. Consequently, LZ4 improves the performance of every website hosted on a server which uses this particular algorithm. We take advantage of LZ4 in an additional way - its speed and compression ratio make it possible for us to make several daily backup copies of the entire content of all accounts and store them for a month. Not only do our backups take less space, but also their generation doesn't slow the servers down like it often happens with other file systems.

Data Compression in Semi-dedicated Hosting

In case you host your Internet sites in a semi-dedicated hosting account from our company, you will be able to experience the advantages of LZ4 - the powerful compression algorithm employed by the ZFS file system that's behind our advanced cloud Internet hosting platform. What distinguishes LZ4 from all other algorithms out there is that it has a better compression ratio and it is considerably quicker, especially with regard to uncompressing web content. It does that even quicker than uncompressed data can be read from a hard disk drive, so your websites will perform faster. The higher speed comes at the expense of using a lot of CPU processing time, which is not an issue for our platform because it consists of a large number of clusters working together. Together with the better performance, you will also have multiple daily backups at your disposal, so you will be able to recover any deleted content with a couple of clicks. The backups are available for an entire month and we can afford to store them as they need a lot less space than ordinary backups.