Data compression is the reduction of the number of bits that have to be saved or transmitted and the process is really important in the internet hosting field due to the fact that info filed on hard disks is typically compressed so as to take less space. You'll find various algorithms for compressing information and they offer different effectiveness based upon the content. A lot of them remove just the redundant bits, so no data will be lost, while others delete unneeded bits, which leads to worse quality when the data is uncompressed. The process uses a lot of processing time, therefore a web hosting server needs to be powerful enough so as to be able to compress and uncompress data right away. An instance how binary code could be compressed is by "remembering" that there are five consecutive 1s, for example, in contrast to storing all five 1s.

Data Compression in Cloud Web Hosting

The compression algorithm which we work with on the cloud internet hosting platform where your new cloud web hosting account will be created is named LZ4 and it's used by the revolutionary ZFS file system which powers the platform. The algorithm is greater than the ones other file systems work with because its compression ratio is higher and it processes data a lot faster. The speed is most noticeable when content is being uncompressed since this happens faster than data can be read from a hard disk drive. Therefore, LZ4 improves the performance of each Internet site stored on a server that uses this algorithm. We use LZ4 in one more way - its speed and compression ratio let us generate a number of daily backup copies of the entire content of all accounts and store them for thirty days. Not only do the backups take less space, but in addition their generation will not slow the servers down like it often happens with other file systems.

Data Compression in Semi-dedicated Hosting

The semi-dedicated hosting plans which we offer are created on a powerful cloud platform which runs on the ZFS file system. ZFS employs a compression algorithm known as LZ4 that is greater than any other algorithm these days in terms of speed and compression ratio when it comes to processing website content. This is valid especially when data is uncompressed as LZ4 does that much faster than it would be to read uncompressed data from a hard drive and because of this, sites running on a platform where LZ4 is enabled will function quicker. We're able to benefit from this feature although it needs quite a considerable amount of CPU processing time because our platform uses many powerful servers working together and we don't create accounts on a single machine like many companies do. There is an additional reward of using LZ4 - given that it compresses data very well and does that very quickly, we can also generate multiple daily backup copies of all accounts without influencing the performance of the servers and keep them for a whole month. By doing this, you will always be able to recover any content that you erase by accident.