The term data compression refers to lowering the number of bits of data which needs to be stored or transmitted. You can do this with or without the loss of data, so what will be deleted at the time of the compression will be either redundant data or unneeded one. When the data is uncompressed subsequently, in the first case the info and its quality shall be identical, while in the second case the quality will be worse. You can find different compression algorithms which are more efficient for different sort of data. Compressing and uncompressing data normally takes lots of processing time, which means that the server executing the action needs to have plenty of resources 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 instead of storing the actual 1s and 0s.

Data Compression in Web Hosting

The cloud internet hosting platform where your web hosting account will be generated works by using the revolutionary ZFS file system. The LZ4 compression method which the latter employs is superior in a number of aspects, and not only does it compress data better than any compression method which a variety of other file systems use, but it is also considerably quicker. The benefits may be significant in particular on compressible content such as website files. Even though it could sound irrational, uncompressing data with LZ4 is quicker than reading uncompressed data from a hard disk, so the performance of any website hosted on our servers shall be enhanced. The better and quicker compression rates also allow us to produce a number of daily backups of the full content in every single web hosting account, so should you delete anything by accident, the last backup that we have will not be more than a few hours old. This is possible as the backups take considerably less space and their generation is fast enough, so as to not affect the performance of our servers.

Data Compression in Semi-dedicated Hosting

In case you host your sites in a semi-dedicated hosting account from our company, you can 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 differentiates LZ4 from all the other algorithms out there is that it has a better compression ratio and it is considerably faster, in particular with regard to uncompressing website content. It does that even quicker than uncompressed info can be read from a hard disk drive, so your websites will perform faster. The higher speed comes at the expense of using a lot of CPU processing time, which is not an issue for our platform because it consists of numerous clusters working together. Along with the superior performance, you'll have multiple daily backups at your disposal, so you'll be able to recover any deleted content with just a few clicks. The backup copies are available for an entire month and we can afford to store them as they take considerably less space compared to conventional backups.