The term data compression describes reducing the number of bits of data which has to be stored or transmitted. This can be done with or without losing data, which means that what will be erased during the compression can be either redundant data or unneeded one. When the data is uncompressed later on, in the first case the content and its quality will be identical, whereas in the second case the quality will be worse. You can find different compression algorithms that are more effective for various sort of information. Compressing and uncompressing data generally takes plenty of processing time, so the server carrying out the action should have adequate resources in order to be able to process your data quick enough. A simple example how information can be compressed is to store just how many sequential positions should have 1 and just how many should have 0 in the binary code rather than storing the actual 1s and 0s.

Data Compression in Shared Web Hosting

The compression algorithm employed by the ZFS file system which runs on our cloud hosting platform is named LZ4. It can supercharge the performance of any Internet site hosted in a shared web hosting account with us since not only does it compress info more efficiently than algorithms used by various file systems, but it also uncompresses data at speeds that are higher than the hard disk drive reading speeds. This is achieved by using a lot of CPU processing time, which is not a problem for our platform due to the fact that it uses clusters of powerful servers working together. One more advantage of LZ4 is that it enables us to generate backup copies quicker and on less disk space, so we can have a couple of daily backups of your databases and files and their generation won't change the performance of the servers. This way, we can always restore the content that you may have removed by accident.

Data Compression in Semi-dedicated Hosting

The semi-dedicated hosting plans that we supply are created on a powerful cloud platform which runs on the ZFS file system. ZFS works with a compression algorithm named LZ4 that is greater than any other algorithm available in terms of speed and data compression ratio when it comes to processing website content. This is valid particularly when data is uncompressed as LZ4 does that quicker than it would be to read uncompressed data from a hard disk drive and for that reason, sites running on a platform where LZ4 is enabled will work quicker. We're able to take advantage of the feature regardless of the fact that it needs quite a great deal of CPU processing time because our platform uses a huge number of powerful servers working together and we do not make accounts on just a single machine like the vast majority of companies do. There is one more reward of using LZ4 - considering the fact that it compresses data really well and does that extremely fast, we can also make multiple daily backup copies of all accounts without influencing the performance of the servers and keep them for 30 days. By doing this, you'll always be able to bring back any content that you erase by accident.