Data compression is the decrease of the number of bits that have to be saved or transmitted and the process is very important in the web hosting field since data recorded on hard disk drives is usually compressed in order to take less space. There're many different algorithms for compressing data and they offer different efficiency depending on the content. Some of them remove just the redundant bits, so that no data can be lost, while others remove unneeded bits, which leads to worse quality when the particular data is uncompressed. The process requires plenty of processing time, which means that a hosting server should be powerful enough to be able to compress and uncompress data right away. An instance how binary code may be compressed is by "remembering" that there're five sequential 1s, for example, as an alternative to storing all five 1s.

Data Compression in Cloud Hosting

The compression algorithm that we work with on the cloud hosting platform where your new cloud hosting account will be created is called LZ4 and it's used by the cutting-edge ZFS file system that powers the system. The algorithm is more advanced than the ones other file systems use since its compression ratio is higher and it processes data considerably faster. The speed is most noticeable when content is being uncompressed since this happens even faster than information can be read from a hard drive. As a result, LZ4 improves the performance of every site hosted on a server that uses this particular algorithm. We take advantage of LZ4 in one more way - its speed and compression ratio make it possible for us to make a number of daily backup copies of the entire content of all accounts and store them for 30 days. Not only do the backup copies take less space, but also their generation doesn't slow the servers down like it often happens with many other file systems.

Data Compression in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you host your websites in a semi-dedicated hosting account with our company, you'll be able to experience the advantages of LZ4 - the powerful compression algorithm employed by the ZFS file system that's behind our advanced cloud Internet hosting platform. What separates LZ4 from all of the other algorithms out there is that it has a higher compression ratio and it is considerably faster, particularly with regard to uncompressing website content. It does that even quicker than uncompressed information can be read from a hard drive, so your websites will perform better. The higher speed is at the expense of using a great deal of CPU processing time, that's not a problem for our platform since it consists of a lot of clusters working together. Together with the better performance, you'll also have multiple daily backup copies at your disposal, so you can recover any deleted content with just a couple of clicks. The backup copies are available for an entire month and we can afford to keep them since they take significantly less space than conventional backups.