The term data compression means reducing the number of bits of info which has to be stored or transmitted. You can do this with or without losing data, so what will be removed in the course of the compression can be either redundant data or unneeded one. When the data is uncompressed afterwards, in the first case the data and the quality will be identical, whereas in the second case the quality shall be worse. There are different compression algorithms which are better for various sort of info. Compressing and uncompressing data frequently takes a lot of processing time, which means that the server performing the action should have sufficient resources to be able to process the data fast enough. An example how information can be compressed is to store just how many consecutive positions should have 1 and just how many should have 0 within the binary code as an alternative to storing the actual 1s and 0s.

Data Compression in Website Hosting

The cloud hosting platform where your website hosting account is created uses the innovative ZFS file system. The LZ4 compression method that the aforementioned employs is better in many aspects, and not only does it compress information better than any compression method which some other file systems use, but it's also much faster. The benefits will be significant in particular on compressible content such as website files. While it could sound irrational, uncompressing data with LZ4 is faster than reading uncompressed info from a hard disk, so the performance of any website hosted on our servers shall be better. The better and quicker compression rates also make it possible for us to produce multiple daily backups of the entire content in each and every web hosting account, so should you delete something by mistake, the last back-up copy that we have will not be more than a couple of hours old. This is possible as the backups take considerably less space and their generation is fast enough, to not change the performance of the servers.

Data Compression in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you host your Internet sites in a semi-dedicated hosting account with our company, you can experience the advantages of LZ4 - the powerful compression algorithm employed by the ZFS file system that is behind our advanced cloud hosting platform. What separates LZ4 from all of the other algorithms out there is that it has an improved compression ratio and it is considerably quicker, especially with regard to uncompressing website content. It does that even faster than uncompressed data can be read from a hard disk drive, so your Internet sites will perform faster. The higher speed comes at the expense of using plenty of CPU processing time, which is not a problem for our platform as it consists of a lot of clusters working together. Together with the improved performance, you will also have multiple daily backup copies at your disposal, so you'll be able to restore any deleted content with just a few clicks. The backups are available for an entire month and we can afford to store them since they need considerably less space than ordinary backups.