The term data compression describes lowering the number of bits of info that needs to be stored or transmitted. You can do this with or without losing data, so what will be deleted throughout the compression can be either redundant data or unneeded one. When the data is uncompressed later on, in the first case the info and the quality will be identical, whereas in the second case the quality shall be worse. You'll find various compression algorithms that are more effective for various type of data. Compressing and uncompressing data normally takes plenty of processing time, so the server executing the action must have adequate resources to be able to process your info fast enough. A simple example how information can be compressed is to store just how many consecutive positions should have 1 and how many should have 0 within the binary code rather than storing the actual 1s and 0s.

Data Compression in Shared Web Hosting

The compression algorithm that we use on the cloud web hosting platform where your new shared web hosting account shall be created is called LZ4 and it's applied by the leading-edge ZFS file system that powers the system. The algorithm is far better than the ones other file systems employ as its compression ratio is higher and it processes data considerably faster. The speed is most noticeable when content is being uncompressed as this happens quicker than information can be read from a hard disk. Because of this, LZ4 improves the performance of any site located on a server that uses the algorithm. We use LZ4 in one more way - its speed and compression ratio make it possible for us to produce a number of daily backup copies of the entire content of all accounts and store them for one month. Not only do our backups take less space, but in addition their generation will not slow the servers down like it often happens with various other file systems.

Data Compression in Semi-dedicated Servers

In case you host your sites in a semi-dedicated server account with our firm, you can experience the advantages of LZ4 - the powerful compression algorithm used by the ZFS file system that's behind our advanced cloud Internet hosting platform. What differentiates LZ4 from all of the other algorithms out there is that it has an improved compression ratio and it is considerably faster, especially when it comes to uncompressing website content. It does that even quicker than uncompressed info can be read from a hard drive, so your sites will perform faster. The higher speed comes at the expense of using a great deal of CPU processing time, that is not a problem for our platform because it consists of numerous clusters working together. Together with the superior performance, you'll have multiple daily backups at your disposal, so you'll be able to recover any deleted content with just a couple of clicks. The backup copies are available for a whole month and we can afford to store them because they need significantly less space compared to ordinary backups.