Data compression is the lowering of the number of bits that need to be saved or transmitted and this particular process is very important in the web hosting field since info located on HDDs is typically compressed to take less space. There are many different algorithms for compressing info and they offer different effectiveness based on the content. Some of them remove just the redundant bits, so no data will be lost, while others delete unnecessary bits, which leads to worse quality when the particular data is uncompressed. The process consumes a lot of processing time, so a hosting server should be powerful enough to be able to compress and uncompress data in real time. An example how binary code could be compressed is by "remembering" that there are five sequential 1s, for example, as an alternative to storing all five 1s.

Data Compression in Shared Hosting

The compression algorithm used by the ZFS file system which runs on our cloud web hosting platform is known as LZ4. It can boost the performance of any Internet site hosted in a shared hosting account on our end because not only does it compress info more efficiently than algorithms used by other file systems, but also uncompresses data at speeds that are higher than the HDD reading speeds. This can be done 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. An additional advantage of LZ4 is that it allows us to make backups more speedily and on reduced disk space, so we will have multiple daily backups of your files and databases and their generation will not influence the performance of the servers. That way, we could always restore the content that you may have removed by mistake.

Data Compression in Semi-dedicated Servers

The ZFS file system that runs on the cloud platform where your semi-dedicated server account will be created uses a powerful compression algorithm called LZ4. It's among the best algorithms out there and definitely the most efficient one when it comes to compressing and uncompressing website content, as its ratio is very high and it'll uncompress data much faster than the same data can be read from a hard drive if it were uncompressed. That way, using LZ4 will quicken every Internet site that runs on a platform where the algorithm is present. The high performance requires lots of CPU processing time, that is provided by the multitude of clusters working together as a part of our platform. In addition, LZ4 allows us to generate several backups of your content every day and have them for one month as they'll take a smaller amount of space than regular backups and will be generated much faster without loading the servers.