Data compression is the lowering of the number of bits that need to be saved or transmitted and this particular process is rather important in the web hosting field as info recorded on hard disk drives is usually compressed so as to take less space. There are different algorithms for compressing data and they offer different efficiency based on the content. Some of them remove only the redundant bits, so no data can be lost, while others remove unnecessary bits, which leads to worse quality once the data is uncompressed. The process consumes plenty of processing time, therefore a hosting server has to be powerful enough to be able to compress and uncompress data quickly. An example how binary code can be compressed is by "remembering" that there are five consecutive 1s, for example, rather than storing all five 1s.
Data Compression in Shared Website Hosting
The compression algorithm employed by the ZFS file system that runs on our cloud internet hosting platform is known as LZ4. It can supercharge the performance of any website hosted in a shared website hosting account on our end since not only does it compress data more effectively than algorithms used by various other file systems, but it uncompresses data at speeds which are higher than the HDD reading speeds. This is achieved by using a lot of CPU processing time, that is not a problem for our platform for the reason that it uses clusters of powerful servers working together. One more advantage of LZ4 is that it enables us to create backups more rapidly and on less disk space, so we shall have several daily backups of your files and databases and their generation won't change the performance of the servers. In this way, we can always restore all of the content that you could have erased by mistake.
Data Compression in Semi-dedicated Hosting
The ZFS file system that runs on the cloud platform where your semi-dedicated hosting account will be created uses a powerful compression algorithm called LZ4. It's among the best algorithms out there and certainly the most efficient one when it comes to compressing and uncompressing web content, as its ratio is very high and it will uncompress data a lot faster than the same data can be read from a hard drive if it were uncompressed. Thus, using LZ4 will accelerate every Internet site that runs on a platform where this algorithm is present. The high performance requires lots of CPU processing time, that is provided by the great number of clusters working together as a part of our platform. In addition to that, LZ4 enables us to generate several backup copies of your content every day and keep them for one month as they will take a reduced amount of space than regular backups and will be created much quicker without loading the servers.