The term data compression means lowering the number of bits of information that should be stored or transmitted. You can do this with or without the loss of information, which means that what will be deleted in the course of the compression can be either redundant data or unnecessary one. When the data is uncompressed subsequently, in the first case the content and the quality will be the same, whereas in the second case the quality will be worse. You'll find different compression algorithms which are more effective for various sort of info. Compressing and uncompressing data generally takes lots of processing time, therefore the server carrying out the action should have enough resources in order to be able to process the info fast enough. A simple example how information can be compressed is to store just how many consecutive positions should have 1 and just how many should have 0 within the binary code rather than storing the particular 1s and 0s.

Data Compression in Shared Hosting

The compression algorithm that we use on the cloud hosting platform where your new shared hosting account will be created is known as LZ4 and it is applied by the revolutionary ZFS file system which powers the platform. The algorithm is much better than the ones other file systems work with since its compression ratio is much higher and it processes data significantly quicker. The speed is most noticeable when content is being uncompressed since this happens at a faster rate than information can be read from a hard disk. As a result, LZ4 improves the performance of any site hosted on a server which uses the algorithm. We take full advantage of LZ4 in one more way - its speed and compression ratio make it possible for us to generate several daily backup copies of the full content of all accounts and store them for thirty days. Not only do the backup copies take less space, but their generation won't slow the servers down like it often happens with various other file systems.

Data Compression in Semi-dedicated Servers

In case you host your websites in a semi-dedicated server account with our firm, you will be able to 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 distinguishes LZ4 from all the other algorithms out there is that it has a better compression ratio and it is way quicker, in particular when it comes to uncompressing web content. It does that even quicker than uncompressed data can be read from a hard drive, so your Internet sites will perform faster. The higher speed is at the expense of using plenty of CPU processing time, that is not a problem for our platform since it consists of a lot of clusters working together. Together with the better performance, you will also have multiple daily backups at your disposal, so you'll be able to recover any deleted content with a couple of clicks. The backups are available for a whole month and we can afford to store them since they need considerably less space compared to ordinary backups.