Data compression is the lowering of the number of bits that should be stored or transmitted and this process is quite important in the web hosting field due to the fact that data recorded on hard disks is usually compressed in order to take less space. You'll find many different algorithms for compressing data and they provide different effectiveness based upon the content. A lot of them remove only the redundant bits, so that no data can be lost, while others erase unnecessary bits, which leads to worse quality once the particular data is uncompressed. The process consumes plenty of processing time, therefore an internet hosting server needs to be powerful enough so as to be able to compress and uncompress data right away. An instance how binary code could be compressed is by "remembering" that there are five consecutive 1s, for example, in contrast to storing all five 1s.
Data Compression in Cloud Hosting
The cloud internet hosting platform where your cloud hosting account shall be made uses the outstanding ZFS file system. The LZ4 compression method which the aforementioned employs is superior in many aspects, and not only does it compress information better than any compression method which a variety of other file systems use, but it's also faster. The gains will be significant especially on compressible content like website files. Even though it could sound unreasonable, uncompressing data with LZ4 is faster than reading uncompressed info from a hard disk drive, so the performance of every site hosted on our servers shall be improved. The better and faster compression rates also make it possible for us to produce numerous daily backups of the full content in each and every hosting account, so if you delete anything by accident, the last backup which we have will not be more than a few hours old. This is possible because the backups take a lot less space and their generation is quick enough, so as to not affect the performance of the servers.
Data Compression in Semi-dedicated Hosting
In case you host your websites in a semi-dedicated hosting account from our firm, you will be able to experience the advantages of LZ4 - the powerful compression algorithm employed by the ZFS file system that is behind our advanced cloud Internet hosting platform. What separates LZ4 from all the other algorithms out there is that it has an improved compression ratio and it is considerably faster, particularly with regard to uncompressing web content. It does that even faster than uncompressed data can be read from a hard drive, so your Internet sites will perform better. The higher speed is at the expense of using a lot of CPU processing time, that is not an issue for our platform because it consists of a large number of clusters working together. Together with the better performance, you'll also have multiple daily backup copies at your disposal, so you could restore any deleted content with a couple of clicks. The backups are available for an entire month and we can afford to keep them because they need considerably less space than standard backups.