Data compression is the decrease of the number of bits that have to be stored or transmitted and the process is really important in the web hosting field because info kept on hard disks is often compressed so as to take less space. You can find different algorithms for compressing data and they have different efficiency based on the content. Many of them remove only the redundant bits, so that no data can be lost, while others erase unneeded bits, which results in worse quality when the data is uncompressed. The process requires plenty of processing time, so a hosting server needs to be powerful enough in order to be able to compress and uncompress data in real time. An instance how binary code can be compressed is by "remembering" that there're five sequential 1s, for example, rather than storing all five 1s.

Data Compression in Cloud Web Hosting

The compression algorithm that we use on the cloud internet hosting platform where your new cloud web hosting account will be created is named LZ4 and it's applied by the exceptional ZFS file system which powers the platform. The algorithm is more advanced than the ones other file systems employ because its compression ratio is a lot higher and it processes data considerably faster. The speed is most noticeable when content is being uncompressed as this happens faster than data can be read from a hard disk drive. As a result, LZ4 improves the performance of every Internet site located on a server that uses this algorithm. We use LZ4 in an additional way - its speed and compression ratio let us produce a couple of daily backups of the whole content of all accounts and keep them for thirty days. Not only do our backups take less space, but also their generation doesn't slow the servers down like it often happens with some other file systems.

Data Compression in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you host your websites in a semi-dedicated server account from our firm, you will be able to experience the advantages of LZ4 - the powerful compression algorithm used by the ZFS file system which is behind our advanced cloud Internet hosting platform. What distinguishes LZ4 from all the other algorithms out there is that it has a higher compression ratio and it is much faster, especially with regard to uncompressing web content. It does that even faster than uncompressed information can be read from a hard drive, so your Internet sites will perform better. The higher speed is at the expense of using a lot of CPU processing time, which is not a problem for our platform because it consists of a lot of clusters working together. Besides the improved performance, you will also have multiple daily backup copies at your disposal, so you could recover any deleted content with just a few clicks. The backups are available for a whole month and we can afford to keep them because they need significantly less space than traditional backups.