Data compression is the decrease of the number of bits which need to be stored or transmitted and the process is quite important in the internet hosting field due to the fact that information kept on hard drives is generally compressed in order to take less space. There're various algorithms for compressing information and they provide different effectiveness depending on the content. Many of them remove just the redundant bits, so no data will be lost, while others erase unnecessary bits, which results in worse quality once the data is uncompressed. The process needs plenty of processing time, which means that a web hosting server needs to be powerful enough so as to be able to compress and uncompress data right away. An example how binary code could be compressed is by "remembering" that there're five sequential 1s, for example, in contrast to storing all five 1s.

Data Compression in Cloud Hosting

The compression algorithm used by the ZFS file system that runs on our cloud hosting platform is named LZ4. It can improve the performance of any Internet site hosted in a cloud hosting account on our end as not only does it compress data much better than algorithms employed by other file systems, but it also uncompresses data at speeds which are higher than the HDD reading speeds. This is achieved by using a lot of CPU processing time, that is not a problem for our platform since it uses clusters of powerful servers working together. One more advantage of LZ4 is that it allows us to make backups much more rapidly and on reduced disk space, so we shall have multiple daily backups of your files and databases and their generation will not affect the performance of the servers. In this way, we could always restore any content that you could have removed by mistake.

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 certainly the most efficient one when it comes to compressing and uncompressing web content, as its ratio is very high and it can uncompress data at a faster rate than the same data can be read from a hard disk drive if it were uncompressed. This way, using LZ4 will quicken any site that runs on a platform where the algorithm is enabled. This high performance requires plenty of CPU processing time, that is provided by the great number of clusters working together as part of our platform. Furthermore, LZ4 makes it possible for us to generate several backup copies of your content every day and have them for a month as they'll take a smaller amount of space than regular backups and will be created much more quickly without loading the servers.