Data compression is the reduction of the number of bits that should be stored or transmitted and this particular process is rather important in the internet hosting field because information stored on hard disks is generally compressed to take less space. There're many different algorithms for compressing data and they have different efficiency based upon the content. A number of them remove just the redundant bits, so no data can be lost, while others erase unneeded bits, which leads to worse quality when the data is uncompressed. The method uses a lot of processing time, so an internet hosting server needs to be powerful enough so as to be able to compress and uncompress data immediately. An example how binary code may be compressed is by "remembering" that there're five consecutive 1s, for example, rather than storing all five 1s.

Data Compression in Cloud Hosting

The compression algorithm employed by the ZFS file system that runs on our cloud internet hosting platform is known as LZ4. It can upgrade the performance of any website hosted in a cloud hosting account on our end as not only does it compress info more efficiently than algorithms used by other file systems, but also uncompresses data at speeds which are higher than the HDD reading speeds. This can be done by using a great deal of CPU processing time, which is not a problem for our platform considering that it uses clusters of powerful servers working together. One more advantage of LZ4 is that it allows us to generate backups a lot faster and on lower disk space, so we can have multiple daily backups of your files and databases and their generation won't change the performance of the servers. This way, we can always recover any kind of content that you may have removed by mistake.

Data Compression in Semi-dedicated Servers

The semi-dedicated server plans that we offer are created on a powerful cloud platform that runs on the ZFS file system. ZFS works with a compression algorithm known as LZ4 that is better than any other algorithm these days in terms of speed and data compression ratio when it comes to processing web content. This is valid particularly when data is uncompressed because LZ4 does that faster than it would be to read uncompressed data from a hard drive and for that reason, Internet sites running on a platform where LZ4 is present will function at a higher speed. We are able to take advantage of the feature despite of the fact that it needs quite a great deal of CPU processing time because our platform uses a large number of powerful servers working together and we never make accounts on a single machine like a lot of companies do. There's one more reward of using LZ4 - considering the fact that it compresses data really well and does that extremely fast, we can also generate multiple daily backups of all accounts without influencing the performance of the servers and keep them for an entire month. That way, you'll always be able to bring back any content that you delete by accident.