Data compression is the reduction of the number of bits which should be stored or transmitted and this particular process is really important in the web hosting field since information stored on HDDs is typically compressed so as to take less space. You will find various algorithms for compressing info and they offer different efficiency based on the content. A number of them remove only the redundant bits, so that no data can be lost, while others remove unneeded bits, which leads to worse quality when your data is uncompressed. This process consumes a lot of processing time, which means that a web hosting server has to be powerful enough so as to be able to compress and uncompress data in real time. An illustration how binary code could be compressed is by "remembering" that there're five consecutive 1s, for example, as an alternative to storing all five 1s.

Data Compression in Cloud Website Hosting

The cloud web hosting platform where your cloud website hosting account will be made employs the impressive ZFS file system. The LZ4 compression method that the latter uses is superior in many aspects, and not only does it compress info better than any compression method which a number of other file systems use, but it is also a lot faster. The benefits can be significant in particular on compressible content like website files. While it could sound illogical, uncompressing data with LZ4 is faster than reading uncompressed info from a hard disk, so the performance of each website hosted on our servers will be enhanced. The better and faster compression rates also allow us to produce numerous daily backups of the full content in each and every web hosting account, so if you delete something by accident, the last back-up copy which we have won't be more than a couple of hours old. This can be done as the backups take much less space and their generation is fast enough, so as to not influence the performance of our 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 definitely the best one when it comes to compressing and uncompressing web content, as its ratio is very high and it can uncompress data a lot faster than the same data can be read from a hard drive if it were uncompressed. That way, using LZ4 will speed up every website that runs on a platform where this algorithm is enabled. The high performance requires lots of CPU processing time, which is provided by the great number of clusters working together as part of our platform. What's more, LZ4 allows us to generate several backup copies of your content every day and save them for one month as they will take a smaller amount of space than regular backups and will be created much faster without loading the servers.