Data compression is the decrease of the number of bits that need to be saved or transmitted and the process is very important in the internet hosting field as info recorded on HDDs is typically compressed to take less space. You'll find different algorithms for compressing info and they provide different efficiency based upon the content. A lot of them remove just the redundant bits, so that no data can be lost, while others delete unneeded bits, which results in worse quality once the particular data is uncompressed. The method uses plenty of processing time, which means that an internet hosting server has to be powerful enough in order to be able to compress and uncompress data quickly. An instance how binary code could be compressed is by "remembering" that there're five consecutive 1s, for example, in contrast to storing all five 1s.

Data Compression in Cloud Hosting

The compression algorithm employed by the ZFS file system that runs on our cloud hosting platform is known as LZ4. It can enhance the performance of any Internet site hosted in a cloud hosting account with us since not only does it compress info significantly better than algorithms used by various file systems, but it also uncompresses data at speeds that are higher than the hard disk drive reading speeds. This can be done by using a lot of CPU processing time, that is not a problem for our platform because it uses clusters of powerful servers working together. One more advantage of LZ4 is that it enables us to generate backup copies at a higher speed and on less disk space, so we shall have multiple daily backups of your databases and files and their generation will not influence the performance of the servers. In this way, we can always restore all the content that you may have deleted by accident.

Data Compression in Semi-dedicated Servers

The semi-dedicated server plans that we offer are created on a powerful cloud platform that runs on the ZFS file system. ZFS works with a compression algorithm known as LZ4 that is superior to any other algorithm available on the market in terms of speed and data compression ratio when it comes to processing web content. This is valid particularly when data is uncompressed because LZ4 does that much faster than it would be to read uncompressed data from a hard disk and as a result, sites running on a platform where LZ4 is present will function at a higher speed. We're able to benefit from the feature regardless of the fact that it requires quite a great deal of CPU processing time as our platform uses numerous powerful servers working together and we never create accounts on just a single machine like many companies do. There is one more advantage of using LZ4 - given that it compresses data very well and does that very fast, we can also make multiple daily backup copies of all accounts without influencing the performance of the servers and keep them for a month. In this way, you'll always be able to restore any content that you erase by accident.