The term data compression means decreasing the number of bits of data that needs to be saved or transmitted. This can be done with or without the loss of info, so what will be erased throughout 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 that are more efficient for different type of info. Compressing and uncompressing data in most cases takes a lot of processing time, which means that the server performing the action needs to have adequate resources to be able to process your data quick enough. A simple example how information can be compressed is to store how many consecutive positions should have 1 and how many should have 0 inside the binary code instead of storing the actual 1s and 0s.

Data Compression in Shared Web Hosting

The compression algorithm used by the ZFS file system which runs on our cloud hosting platform is named LZ4. It can boost the performance of any website hosted in a shared web hosting account with us since not only does it compress data more effectively than algorithms employed by various other file systems, but it 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 considering that it uses clusters of powerful servers working together. A further advantage of LZ4 is that it enables us to make backup copies a lot faster and on reduced disk space, so we shall have several daily backups of your databases and files and their generation won't change the performance of the servers. In this way, we can always restore all content that you may have removed by mistake.

Data Compression in Semi-dedicated Servers

The ZFS file system that runs on the cloud platform where your semi-dedicated server account will be created uses a powerful compression algorithm called LZ4. It is among the best algorithms out there and certainly the best one when it comes to compressing and uncompressing website content, as its ratio is very high and it'll uncompress data a lot faster than the same data can be read from a hard disk drive if it were uncompressed. Thus, using LZ4 will boost every Internet site that runs on a platform where the algorithm is enabled. The high performance requires plenty of CPU processing time, that is provided by the numerous clusters working together as part of our platform. In addition, LZ4 makes it possible for 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 standard backups and will be created considerably quicker without loading the servers.