Data compression is the reduction of the number of bits which have to be stored or transmitted and the process is really important in the internet hosting field due to the fact that info filed on hard disk drives is generally compressed in order to take less space. You can find various algorithms for compressing info and they offer different effectiveness based on the content. Some of them remove just the redundant bits, so no data can be lost, while others erase unneeded bits, which results in worse quality once your data is uncompressed. This method uses a lot of processing time, which means that a hosting server needs to be powerful enough in order to be able to compress and uncompress data quickly. One example how binary code can be compressed is by "remembering" that there are five sequential 1s, for example, in contrast to storing all five 1s.

Data Compression in Shared Website Hosting

The ZFS file system which operates on our cloud Internet hosting platform employs a compression algorithm named LZ4. The aforementioned is substantially faster and better than every other algorithm you can find, especially for compressing and uncompressing non-binary data i.e. internet content. LZ4 even uncompresses data faster than it is read from a hard disk, which improves the overall performance of Internet sites hosted on ZFS-based platforms. As the algorithm compresses data quite well and it does that quickly, we are able to generate several backup copies of all the content kept in the shared website hosting accounts on our servers every day. Both your content and its backups will require reduced space and since both ZFS and LZ4 work very quickly, the backup generation will not change the performance of the hosting servers where your content will be stored.

Data Compression in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Your semi-dedicated hosting account will be created on a cloud platform which runs using the innovative ZFS file system. The latter uses a compression algorithm named LZ4, that is far better than all the other algorithms in terms of compression ratio and speed. The gain is significant especially when data is being uncompressed and not only is LZ4 a lot faster than other algorithms, but it is also faster in uncompressing data than a system is in reading from a hard disk drive. Because of this Internet sites running on a platform which employs LZ4 compression perform faster because the algorithm is most effective when it processes compressible data i.e. web content. One more advantage of using LZ4 is that the backup copies of the semi-dedicated accounts that we keep need much less space and they're generated a lot faster, which allows us to have a couple of daily backups of your files and databases.