Data compression is the reduction of the number of bits which have to be stored or transmitted and the process is really important in the internet hosting field because info filed on hard disk drives is generally compressed so as to take less space. You can find different algorithms for compressing info and they offer different effectiveness depending on the content. Many of them remove only the redundant bits, so that no data will be lost, while others remove unneeded bits, which results in worse quality once the data is uncompressed. This method needs plenty of processing time, so a web hosting server has to be powerful enough to be able to compress and uncompress data instantly. An illustration how binary code could be compressed is by "remembering" that there're five consecutive 1s, for example, as an alternative to storing all five 1s.

Data Compression in Cloud Hosting

The compression algorithm employed by the ZFS file system that runs on our cloud hosting platform is named LZ4. It can supercharge the performance of any website hosted in a cloud hosting account on our end since not only does it compress info significantly better than algorithms employed by alternative file systems, but it also uncompresses data at speeds that are higher than the hard drive reading speeds. This is achieved by using a great deal of CPU processing time, that is not a problem for our platform due to the fact that it uses clusters of powerful servers working together. One more advantage of LZ4 is that it enables us to create backup copies much more rapidly and on less disk space, so we will have several daily backups of your files and databases and their generation will not affect the performance of the servers. That way, we could always restore all 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 is one of the best algorithms out there and positively the best 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. This way, using LZ4 will quicken any kind of site that runs on a platform where the algorithm is enabled. The high performance requires plenty of CPU processing time, that's provided by the great number of clusters working together as part of our platform. In addition, LZ4 makes it possible for us to generate several backups of your content every day and have them for a month as they will take much less space than typical backups and will be created considerably quicker without loading the servers.