The term data compression describes decreasing the number of bits of data which needs to be stored or transmitted. You can do this with or without the loss of information, which means that what will be erased throughout the compression will be either redundant data or unnecessary one. When the data is uncompressed afterwards, in the first case the info and the quality shall be the same, whereas in the second case the quality will be worse. You can find different compression algorithms which are more effective for various sort of information. Compressing and uncompressing data generally takes a lot of processing time, which means that the server performing the action must have adequate resources in order to be able to process your info quick enough. A simple example how information can be compressed is to store how many consecutive 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 Shared Website Hosting

The cloud web hosting platform where your shared website hosting account is made works by using the innovative ZFS file system. The LZ4 compression method which the latter uses is better in a number of aspects, and not only does it compress info better than any compression method which a variety of other file systems use, but it's also much faster. The gains can be significant in particular on compressible content such as website files. Although it could sound irrational, uncompressing data with LZ4 is faster than reading uncompressed data from a hard drive, so the performance of each and every Internet site hosted on our servers will be better. The better and quicker compression rates also make it possible for us to make a number of daily backups of the whole content in each and every web hosting account, so in the event you delete something by accident, the last back-up copy which we have won't be more than a couple of hours old. This is possible because the backups take significantly less space and their generation is quick enough, so as to not affect the performance of our servers.

Data Compression in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you host your sites in a semi-dedicated server account from our firm, you will be able to experience the advantages of LZ4 - the powerful compression algorithm used by the ZFS file system that is behind our advanced cloud Internet hosting platform. What distinguishes LZ4 from all other algorithms out there is that it has an improved compression ratio and it is much faster, in particular when it comes to uncompressing web content. It does that even quicker than uncompressed information can be read from a hard disk drive, so your websites will perform faster. The higher speed comes at the expense of using plenty of CPU processing time, that's not a problem for our platform since it consists of a lot of clusters working together. In combination with the superior performance, you'll have multiple daily backups at your disposal, so you can recover any deleted content with a couple of clicks. The backups are available for a whole month and we can afford to keep them as they take a lot less space compared to ordinary backups.