Data compression is the compacting of info by reducing the number of bits which are stored or transmitted. Consequently, the compressed data needs much less disk space than the original one, so a lot more content might be stored on identical amount of space. You'll find different compression algorithms which work in different ways and with several of them only the redundant bits are removed, therefore once the data is uncompressed, there's no decrease in quality. Others delete excessive bits, but uncompressing the data later on will result in lower quality in comparison with the original. Compressing and uncompressing content takes a large amount of system resources, and in particular CPU processing time, so each and every web hosting platform that uses compression in real time must have sufficient power to support that attribute. An example how info can be compressed is to replace a binary code such as 111111 with 6x1 i.e. "remembering" what number of consecutive 1s or 0s there should be instead of keeping the actual code.

Data Compression in Shared Hosting

The compression algorithm which we work with on the cloud hosting platform where your new shared hosting account shall be created is called LZ4 and it's applied by the exceptional ZFS file system which powers the platform. The algorithm is much better than the ones other file systems work with as its compression ratio is higher and it processes data significantly faster. The speed is most noticeable when content is being uncompressed since this happens faster than data can be read from a hard disk. Therefore, LZ4 improves the performance of each site hosted on a server that uses this algorithm. We take advantage of LZ4 in one more way - its speed and compression ratio make it possible for us to generate multiple daily backups of the entire content of all accounts and keep them for one month. Not only do these backups take less space, but also their generation will not slow the servers down like it can often happen with other file systems.

Data Compression in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you host your websites in a semi-dedicated hosting 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 separates LZ4 from all other algorithms out there is that it has a better compression ratio and it is considerably quicker, particularly with regard to uncompressing website content. It does that even quicker than uncompressed information can be read from a hard drive, so your Internet sites will perform better. The higher speed comes at the expense of using a great deal of CPU processing time, that is not an issue for our platform since it consists of a large number of clusters working together. Along with the better performance, you'll also have multiple daily backup copies at your disposal, so you could recover any deleted content with several clicks. The backups are available for an entire month and we can afford to store them because they take considerably less space than standard backups.