Data compression is the decrease of the number of bits that have to be stored or transmitted and this process is quite important in the web hosting field because information kept on hard disks is often compressed to take less space. You'll find many different algorithms for compressing info and they have different efficiency based on the content. Many of them remove only the redundant bits, so no data will be lost, while others remove unnecessary bits, which leads to worse quality when the data is uncompressed. This method uses a lot of processing time, therefore a hosting server needs to be powerful enough in order to be able to compress and uncompress data in real time. An illustration how binary code could be compressed is by "remembering" that there are five consecutive 1s, for example, rather than storing all five 1s.

Data Compression in Cloud Hosting

The compression algorithm used by the ZFS file system that runs on our cloud internet hosting platform is called LZ4. It can boost the performance of any website hosted in a cloud hosting account on our end as not only does it compress info much better than algorithms used by various file systems, but it uncompresses data at speeds which are higher than the HDD reading speeds. This is achieved by using a great deal of CPU processing time, which is not a problem for our platform since it uses clusters of powerful servers working together. A further advantage of LZ4 is that it enables us to make backup copies faster and on reduced disk space, so we can have a couple of daily backups of your databases and files and their generation will not change the performance of the servers. This way, we can always restore the content that you may have erased by mistake.

Data Compression in Semi-dedicated Servers

The ZFS file system which runs on the cloud platform where your semi-dedicated server account will be created uses a powerful compression algorithm called LZ4. It's among the best algorithms out there and positively the most efficient one when it comes to compressing and uncompressing web content, as its ratio is very high and it'll uncompress data a lot faster than the same data can be read from a hard drive if it were uncompressed. Thus, using LZ4 will quicken any Internet site that runs on a platform where this algorithm is enabled. The high performance requires plenty of CPU processing time, that is provided by the numerous clusters working together as a part of our platform. In addition, LZ4 makes it possible for us to generate several backups of your content every day and have them for one month as they'll take a smaller amount of space than standard backups and will be generated much more quickly without loading the servers.