The term data compression identifies decreasing the number of bits of data which should be saved or transmitted. This can be done with or without the loss of info, which means that what will be removed at the time of the compression can be either redundant data or unneeded one. When the data is uncompressed subsequently, in the first case the info and its quality will be the same, while in the second case the quality shall be worse. You'll find various compression algorithms that are more effective for various kind of data. Compressing and uncompressing data often takes a lot of processing time, so the server executing the action needs to have sufficient resources to be able to process your info quick enough. One simple example how information can be compressed is to store how many consecutive positions should have 1 and just how many should have 0 in the binary code instead of storing the actual 1s and 0s.

Data Compression in Cloud Web Hosting

The ZFS file system that operates on our cloud Internet hosting platform employs a compression algorithm named LZ4. The aforementioned is a lot faster and better than any other algorithm available on the market, especially for compressing and uncompressing non-binary data i.e. internet content. LZ4 even uncompresses data quicker than it is read from a hard disk, which improves the overall performance of websites hosted on ZFS-based platforms. Due to the fact that the algorithm compresses data very well and it does that very fast, we can generate several backup copies of all the content stored in the cloud web hosting accounts on our servers daily. Both your content and its backups will need less space and since both ZFS and LZ4 work very quickly, the backup generation will not change the performance of the web servers where your content will be stored.

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's among the best algorithms out there and definitely the most efficient one when it comes to compressing and uncompressing web content, as its ratio is very high and it'll uncompress data at a higher speed than the same data can be read from a hard drive if it were uncompressed. That way, using LZ4 will speed up every Internet site that runs on a platform where the algorithm is present. This high performance requires plenty of CPU processing time, which is provided by the great number of clusters working together as a part of our platform. In addition, LZ4 enables us to generate several backups of your content every day and save them for a month as they'll take a reduced amount of space than standard backups and will be created much quicker without loading the servers.