Data compression is the compacting of information by reducing the number of bits that are stored or transmitted. As a result, the compressed data requires much less disk space than the initial one, so a lot more content can be stored on identical amount of space. You can find many different compression algorithms which function in different ways and with some of them only the redundant bits are erased, so once the info is uncompressed, there's no decrease in quality. Others delete unnecessary bits, but uncompressing the data later will lead to reduced quality in comparison with the original. Compressing and uncompressing content consumes a significant amount of system resources, especially CPU processing time, so any Internet hosting platform that uses compression in real time needs to have sufficient power to support this feature. An example how data can be compressed is to substitute a binary code such as 111111 with 6x1 i.e. "remembering" what number of consecutive 1s or 0s there should be instead of saving the actual code.

Data Compression in Cloud Hosting

The cloud internet hosting platform where your cloud hosting account will be generated employs the impressive ZFS file system. The LZ4 compression method which the aforementioned uses is greater in a number of aspects, and not only does it compress information better than any compression method that a variety of other file systems use, but it's also much quicker. The benefits will be significant especially on compressible content like website files. While it could sound illogical, uncompressing data with LZ4 is quicker than reading uncompressed info from a hard disk, so the performance of any Internet site hosted on our servers shall be enhanced. The better and quicker compression rates also make it possible for us to make a number of daily backups of the entire content in each Internet hosting account, so in the event you delete something by accident, the last back-up copy that we have will not be more than several hours old. This can be done because the backups take much less space and their generation is fast enough, to not influence the performance of the servers.

Data Compression in Semi-dedicated Hosting

The ZFS file system which runs on the cloud platform where your semi-dedicated hosting account will be created uses a powerful compression algorithm called LZ4. It is among the best algorithms out there and certainly the most efficient one when it comes to compressing and uncompressing web content, as its ratio is very high and it will uncompress data a lot faster than the same data can be read from a hard drive if it were uncompressed. This way, using LZ4 will quicken any website that runs on a platform where this algorithm is enabled. This high performance requires lots of CPU processing time, that's provided by the large number of clusters working together as a part of our platform. In addition to that, LZ4 makes it possible for us to generate several backups of your content every day and have them for one month as they will take much less space than regular backups and will be created much quicker without loading the servers.