Data compression is the lowering of the number of bits that should be stored or transmitted and this particular process is rather important in the internet hosting field since data filed on hard drives is often compressed so as to take less space. You will find various algorithms for compressing information and they provide different efficiency depending on the content. Many of them remove just the redundant bits, so no data can be lost, while others remove unnecessary bits, which results in worse quality when your data is uncompressed. The method uses a lot of processing time, therefore a hosting server has to be powerful enough to be able to compress and uncompress data instantly. An illustration how binary code may be compressed is by "remembering" that there are five consecutive 1s, for example, as an alternative to storing all five 1s.

Data Compression in Cloud Hosting

The cloud internet hosting platform where your cloud hosting account will be generated uses the outstanding ZFS file system. The LZ4 compression method that the aforementioned uses is superior in lots of aspects, and not only does it compress data better than any compression method that some other file systems use, but it is also considerably quicker. The gains are significant in particular on compressible content like website files. Despite the fact that it may sound illogical, uncompressing data with LZ4 is faster than reading uncompressed info from a hard disk, so the performance of any Internet site hosted on our servers will be enhanced. The better and quicker compression rates also allow us to generate numerous daily backups of the entire content in every single hosting account, so in the event you delete something by accident, the last back-up copy that we have won't be more than several hours old. This can be done because the backups take considerably less space and their generation is fast enough, to not influence the performance of the servers.

Data Compression in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Your semi-dedicated hosting account will be created on a cloud platform which runs using the advanced ZFS file system. The aforementioned uses a compression algorithm named LZ4, which is a lot better than various other algorithms in terms of compression ratio and speed. The gain is noticeable especially when data is being uncompressed and not only is LZ4 much faster than other algorithms, but it is also faster in uncompressing data than a system is in reading from a hard drive. Because of this sites running on a platform that uses LZ4 compression perform faster as the algorithm is most efficient when it processes compressible data i.e. web content. An additional advantage of using LZ4 is that the backups of the semi-dedicated accounts which we keep need significantly less space and they're generated faster, which enables us to store a couple of daily backups of your files and databases.