The term data compression refers to reducing the number of bits of information that should be saved or transmitted. You can do this with or without the loss of information, so what will be deleted at the time of the compression shall be either redundant data or unnecessary one. When the data is uncompressed afterwards, in the first case the content and its quality will be identical, while in the second case the quality will be worse. You will find various compression algorithms which are more effective for various type of information. Compressing and uncompressing data usually takes plenty of processing time, so the server executing the action should have enough resources to be able to process your data fast enough. A simple example how information can be compressed is to store how many sequential positions should have 1 and just how many should have 0 within the binary code instead of storing the particular 1s and 0s.

Data Compression in Shared Web Hosting

The compression algorithm employed by the ZFS file system that runs on our cloud hosting platform is named LZ4. It can boost the performance of any site hosted in a shared web hosting account on our end as not only does it compress info significantly better than algorithms used by other file systems, but it also uncompresses data at speeds that are higher than the hard disk reading speeds. This can be done by using a great deal of CPU processing time, that is not a problem for our platform due to the fact that it uses clusters of powerful servers working together. A further advantage of LZ4 is that it allows us to generate backup copies much more quickly and on less disk space, so we shall have a couple of daily backups of your files and databases and their generation will not change the performance of the servers. That way, we can always restore any content that you may have removed by mistake.

Data Compression in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you host your Internet sites in a semi-dedicated hosting account with our firm, you'll be able to experience the advantages of LZ4 - the powerful compression algorithm employed by the ZFS file system that is behind our advanced cloud hosting platform. What differentiates LZ4 from all the other algorithms out there is that it has a higher compression ratio and it is much faster, in particular with regard to uncompressing web content. It does that even faster than uncompressed data can be read from a hard disk drive, so your Internet sites will perform faster. The higher speed comes at the expense of using plenty of CPU processing time, that is not an issue for our platform because it consists of multiple clusters working together. In combination with the better performance, you will also have multiple daily backups at your disposal, so you could recover any deleted content with just a few clicks. The backup copies are available for a whole month and we can afford to keep them since they need considerably less space compared to ordinary backups.