Data compression is the reduction of the number of bits that need to be stored or transmitted and the process is rather important in the internet hosting field due to the fact that information stored on hard disks is usually compressed so as to take less space. You'll find many different algorithms for compressing info and they provide different effectiveness based on the content. Many of them remove just the redundant bits, so that no data can be lost, while others remove unneeded bits, which results in worse quality once the particular data is uncompressed. The method uses a lot of processing time, therefore an internet hosting server needs to be powerful enough to be able to compress and uncompress data instantly. An example how binary code can be compressed is by "remembering" that there're five sequential 1s, for example, rather than storing all five 1s.

Data Compression in Hosting

The compression algorithm that we employ on the cloud hosting platform where your new hosting account will be created is called LZ4 and it is applied by the advanced ZFS file system that powers the system. The algorithm is a lot better than the ones other file systems use since its compression ratio is higher and it processes data a lot quicker. The speed is most noticeable when content is being uncompressed since this happens faster than data can be read from a hdd. For that reason, LZ4 improves the performance of each and every site stored on a server that uses this particular algorithm. We use LZ4 in an additional way - its speed and compression ratio make it possible for us to produce a number of daily backup copies of the whole content of all accounts and store them for thirty days. Not only do these backups take less space, but their generation doesn't slow the servers down like it can often happen with other file systems.

Data Compression in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you host your Internet sites 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's 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 way quicker, in particular when it comes to uncompressing web content. It does that even faster than uncompressed info can be read from a hard disk drive, so your Internet sites will perform better. The higher speed is at the expense of using plenty of CPU processing time, that is not an issue for our platform since it consists of a large number of clusters working together. In combination with the improved performance, you will also have multiple daily backups at your disposal, so you could restore any deleted content with a few clicks. The backup copies are available for an entire month and we can afford to store them as they take considerably less space than conventional backups.