The term data compression describes decreasing the number of bits of data that needs to be saved or transmitted. This can be done with or without losing info, so what will be deleted during the compression shall be either redundant data or unnecessary one. When the data is uncompressed afterwards, in the first case the data and its quality shall be identical, whereas in the second case the quality shall be worse. There're various compression algorithms which are more efficient for various kind of information. Compressing and uncompressing data frequently takes a lot of processing time, so the server carrying out the action should have ample resources in order to be able to process your data fast enough. An example how information can be compressed is to store how many sequential positions should have 1 and how many should have 0 inside the binary code instead of storing the particular 1s and 0s.

Data Compression in Cloud Hosting

The compression algorithm which we use on the cloud internet hosting platform where your new cloud hosting account shall be created is called LZ4 and it's used by the state-of-the-art ZFS file system that powers the platform. The algorithm is greater than the ones other file systems work with as its compression ratio is much higher and it processes data considerably quicker. The speed is most noticeable when content is being uncompressed as this happens even faster than info can be read from a hard disk drive. Consequently, LZ4 improves the performance of any Internet site stored on a server which uses the algorithm. We use LZ4 in one more way - its speed and compression ratio make it possible for us to make several daily backups of the whole content of all accounts and store them for a month. Not only do these backups take less space, but in addition their generation won't slow the servers down like it can often happen with various other file systems.

Data Compression in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you host your Internet sites in a semi-dedicated hosting account with our firm, you will be able to experience the advantages of LZ4 - the powerful compression algorithm used by the ZFS file system which is behind our advanced cloud Internet hosting platform. What distinguishes LZ4 from all other algorithms out there is that it has a higher compression ratio and it is much faster, especially when it comes to uncompressing website content. It does that even quicker than uncompressed information can be read from a hard drive, so your sites will perform faster. The higher speed comes at the expense of using a lot of CPU processing time, that's not an issue for our platform because it consists of a lot of clusters working together. In combination with the better performance, you will also have multiple daily backup copies at your disposal, so you will be able to restore any deleted content with a couple of clicks. The backup copies are available for an entire month and we can afford to store them because they need significantly less space compared to standard backups.