The term data compression means lowering the number of bits of information which has to be saved or transmitted. This can be achieved with or without losing data, which means that what will be erased in the course of the compression will be either redundant data or unnecessary one. When the data is uncompressed subsequently, in the first case the information and the quality will be the same, whereas in the second case the quality shall be worse. You can find various compression algorithms which are better for various kind of data. Compressing and uncompressing data in most cases takes plenty of processing time, which means that the server carrying out the action should have plenty of resources to be able to process your data quick enough. A simple example how information can be compressed is to store just how many sequential positions should have 1 and how many should have 0 within the binary code rather than storing the actual 1s and 0s.

Data Compression in Hosting

The compression algorithm that we use on the cloud web hosting platform where your new hosting account shall be created is named LZ4 and it's used by the exceptional ZFS file system that powers the platform. The algorithm is more advanced than the ones other file systems work with since its compression ratio is higher and it processes data considerably quicker. The speed is most noticeable when content is being uncompressed as this happens even faster than data can be read from a hdd. Therefore, LZ4 improves the performance of any site located on a server which uses this particular algorithm. We take full advantage of LZ4 in one more way - its speed and compression ratio make it possible for us to generate multiple daily backups of the full content of all accounts and keep them for one month. Not only do our backup copies take less space, but their generation doesn't slow the servers down like it can often happen with other file systems.

Data Compression in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you host your Internet sites in a semi-dedicated hosting account with our company, you can experience the advantages of LZ4 - the powerful compression algorithm employed by the ZFS file system which is behind our advanced cloud web hosting platform. What separates LZ4 from all the other algorithms out there is that it has a higher compression ratio and it is considerably faster, in particular with regard to uncompressing web content. It does that even quicker than uncompressed info can be read from a hard drive, so your Internet sites will perform better. The higher speed comes at the expense of using a considerable amount of CPU processing time, that is not an issue for our platform as it consists of multiple clusters working together. Together with the superior performance, you'll have multiple daily backup copies at your disposal, so you will be able to restore any deleted content with just a couple of clicks. The backups are available for an entire month and we can afford to keep them because they take a lot less space than traditional backups.