The term data compression refers to lowering the number of bits of data which needs to be saved or transmitted. This can be achieved with or without the loss of information, which means that what will be removed throughout the compression shall be either redundant data or unnecessary one. When the data is uncompressed subsequently, in the first case the content and the quality will be the same, whereas in the second case the quality shall be worse. There are various compression algorithms that are more efficient for different type of info. Compressing and uncompressing data frequently takes lots of processing time, so the server performing the action needs to have ample resources in order to be able to process the info quick enough. An example how information can be compressed is to store just how many sequential positions should have 1 and just how many should have 0 within the binary code rather than storing the particular 1s and 0s.

Data Compression in Cloud Hosting

The cloud internet hosting platform where your cloud hosting account will be generated works by using the reliable ZFS file system. The LZ4 compression method that the aforementioned employs is better in various aspects, and not only does it compress info better than any compression method that a number of other file systems use, but it's also much quicker. The benefits may be significant particularly on compressible content like website files. Although it may sound illogical, uncompressing data with LZ4 is faster than reading uncompressed data from a hard disk drive, so the performance of any website hosted on our servers will be better. The better and faster compression rates also allow us to make a large number of daily backups of the full content in every single hosting account, so should you delete anything by mistake, the last backup that we have won't be more than a couple of hours old. This can be done because the backups take significantly less space and their generation is quick enough, so as to not affect the performance of the servers.

Data Compression in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Your semi-dedicated hosting account will be created on a cloud platform which runs on the state-of-the-art ZFS file system. The latter uses a compression algorithm named LZ4, which is much better than various other algorithms with regard to compression ratio and speed. The gain is significant especially when data is being uncompressed and not only is LZ4 faster than other algorithms, but it is also quicker in uncompressing data than a system is in reading from a HDD. Because of this Internet sites running on a platform that uses LZ4 compression perform faster since the algorithm is most effective when it processes compressible data i.e. site content. A further advantage of using LZ4 is that the backups of the semi-dedicated accounts which we keep require significantly less space and they're generated a lot quicker, which allows us to store several daily backups of your files and databases.