Data compression is the reduction of the number of bits that should be saved or transmitted and this process is quite important in the web hosting field since data located on hard drives is typically compressed so as to take less space. You will find different algorithms for compressing data and they have different effectiveness depending on the content. A lot of them remove just the redundant bits, so that no data can be lost, while others delete unnecessary bits, which leads to worse quality once the data is uncompressed. This process consumes a lot of processing time, so a web hosting server should be powerful enough to be able to compress and uncompress data immediately. An instance how binary code can be compressed is by "remembering" that there are five consecutive 1s, for example, as an alternative to storing all five 1s.
Data Compression in Cloud Hosting
The cloud hosting platform where your cloud hosting account shall be made works by using the impressive ZFS file system. The LZ4 compression method that the aforementioned uses is better in a number of aspects, and not only does it compress data better than any compression method which other file systems use, but it's also much quicker. The benefits will be significant especially on compressible content which includes website files. Despite the fact that it may sound irrational, uncompressing data with LZ4 is quicker than reading uncompressed data from a hard drive, so the performance of every site hosted on our servers shall be improved. The better and faster compression rates also allow us to generate numerous daily backups of the full content in each and every hosting account, so should you delete anything by mistake, the last backup that we have will not be more than a few hours old. This is possible as the backups take a lot less space and their generation is quick enough, so as to not change the performance of the servers.
Data Compression in Semi-dedicated Servers
If you host your websites in a semi-dedicated server account with our firm, you can experience the advantages of LZ4 - the powerful compression algorithm used by the ZFS file system that's behind our advanced cloud Internet 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 quicker, particularly with regard to uncompressing web content. It does that even faster than uncompressed data can be read from a hard disk drive, so your websites will perform faster. The higher speed comes at the expense of using a considerable amount of CPU processing time, which is not a problem for our platform as it consists of numerous clusters working together. Along with the better performance, you'll also have multiple daily backup copies at your disposal, so you can restore any deleted content with a few clicks. The backup copies are available for a whole month and we can afford to keep them as they take significantly less space compared to ordinary backups.