The term data compression means lowering the number of bits of data which should be saved or transmitted. This can be done with or without the loss of info, so what will be deleted throughout the compression can be either redundant data or unneeded one. When the data is uncompressed afterwards, in the first case the content and the quality shall be the same, while in the second case the quality will be worse. There're different compression algorithms that are more effective for different kind of info. Compressing and uncompressing data often takes a lot of processing time, so the server carrying out the action should have adequate resources to be able to process your data fast enough. One simple example how information can be compressed is to store how many sequential positions should have 1 and just how many should have 0 in the binary code instead of storing the particular 1s and 0s.

Data Compression in Cloud Web Hosting

The compression algorithm that we work with on the cloud web hosting platform where your new cloud web hosting account shall be created is called LZ4 and it's applied by the cutting-edge ZFS file system that powers the platform. The algorithm is more advanced than the ones other file systems use as its compression ratio is a lot higher and it processes data a lot faster. The speed is most noticeable when content is being uncompressed since this happens at a faster rate than data can be read from a hard drive. As a result, LZ4 improves the performance of each and every site hosted on a server which uses the algorithm. We take advantage of LZ4 in an additional way - its speed and compression ratio allow us to make a number of daily backups of the full content of all accounts and store them for 30 days. Not only do these backups take less space, but also their generation doesn't slow the servers down like it can often happen with alternative file systems.

Data Compression in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you host your Internet sites in a semi-dedicated server account with our firm, you can experience the advantages of LZ4 - the powerful compression algorithm employed by the ZFS file system that is behind our advanced cloud hosting platform. What differentiates LZ4 from all of the other algorithms out there is that it has a better compression ratio and it is much faster, particularly when it comes to uncompressing website content. It does that even faster than uncompressed info can be read from a hard drive, so your sites will perform better. The higher speed comes at the expense of using plenty of CPU processing time, that is not an issue for our platform as it consists of numerous clusters working together. Along with the improved performance, you'll also have multiple daily backups at your disposal, so you'll be able to restore any deleted content with several clicks. The backup copies are available for an entire month and we can afford to keep them as they need significantly less space than ordinary backups.