Data compression is the decrease of the number of bits which should be saved or transmitted and this process is really important in the web hosting field since data located on hard disk drives is often compressed in order to take less space. You'll find various algorithms for compressing information and they have different effectiveness depending on the content. A number of them remove only the redundant bits, so that no data can be lost, while others remove unnecessary bits, which results in worse quality once your data is uncompressed. The process requires plenty of processing time, which means that an internet hosting server has to be powerful enough in order to be able to compress and uncompress data quickly. An illustration how binary code can be compressed is by "remembering" that there are five consecutive 1s, for example, as an alternative to storing all five 1s.

Data Compression in Hosting

The compression algorithm used by the ZFS file system that runs on our cloud hosting platform is named LZ4. It can boost the performance of any website hosted in a hosting account with us since not only does it compress data more effectively than algorithms used by other file systems, but also uncompresses data at speeds that are higher than the hard disk reading speeds. This is achieved by using a lot of CPU processing time, which is not a problem for our platform since it uses clusters of powerful servers working together. One more advantage of LZ4 is that it enables us to make backup copies more quickly and on lower disk space, so we can have several daily backups of your databases and files and their generation will not affect the performance of the servers. That way, we can always recover any content that you could have deleted by accident.

Data Compression in Semi-dedicated Hosting

The ZFS file system which runs on the cloud platform where your semi-dedicated hosting account will be created uses a powerful compression algorithm called LZ4. It is among the best algorithms out there and positively the best one when it comes to compressing and uncompressing web content, as its ratio is very high and it can uncompress data at a higher speed than the same data can be read from a hard disk drive if it were uncompressed. That way, using LZ4 will speed up every website that runs on a platform where the algorithm is enabled. The high performance requires plenty of CPU processing time, which is provided by the great number of clusters working together as a part of our platform. In addition, LZ4 enables us to generate several backups of your content every day and save them for a month as they will take a reduced amount of space than regular backups and will be created considerably faster without loading the servers.