Data compression is the compacting of info by decreasing the number of bits which are stored or transmitted. This way, the compressed information will require less disk space than the initial one, so more content could be stored using identical amount of space. You can find many different compression algorithms which function in different ways and with several of them just the redundant bits are deleted, which means that once the information is uncompressed, there is no loss of quality. Others remove unneeded bits, but uncompressing the data subsequently will result in lower quality compared to the original. Compressing and uncompressing content consumes a significant amount of system resources, particularly CPU processing time, therefore each and every Internet hosting platform that uses compression in real time must have ample power to support this attribute. An example how data can be compressed is to substitute a binary code such as 111111 with 6x1 i.e. "remembering" what number of sequential 1s or 0s there should be instead of saving the actual code.

Data Compression in Web Hosting

The cloud hosting platform where your web hosting account will be made uses the innovative ZFS file system. The LZ4 compression method that the latter employs is greater in many aspects, and not only does it compress info better than any compression method which similar file systems use, but it's also much quicker. The benefits will be significant especially on compressible content like website files. Although it may sound irrational, uncompressing data with LZ4 is quicker than reading uncompressed data from a hard disk drive, so the performance of each website hosted on our servers shall be improved. The better and faster compression rates also make it possible for us to generate a large number of daily backups of the full content in each and every web hosting account, so if you delete anything by mistake, the last back-up copy that we have won't be more than a few hours old. This can be done because the backups take a lot less space and their generation is fast enough, to not influence the performance of our servers.

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 one of the best algorithms out there and definitely the best one when it comes to compressing and uncompressing website content, as its ratio is very high and it'll uncompress data quicker than the same data can be read from a hard disk drive if it were uncompressed. Thus, using LZ4 will accelerate every website that runs on a platform where this algorithm is present. The high performance requires plenty of CPU processing time, that is provided by the multitude of clusters working together as a part of our platform. What's more, LZ4 allows us to generate several backups of your content every day and have them for a month as they will take much less space than regular backups and will be created much more quickly without loading the servers.