The term data compression describes lowering the number of bits of info that should be saved or transmitted. This can be done with or without the loss of info, so what will be deleted in the course of the compression will be either redundant data or unnecessary one. When the data is uncompressed afterwards, in the first case the data and the quality shall be the same, while in the second case the quality will be worse. You'll find various compression algorithms that are more effective for various type of info. Compressing and uncompressing data normally takes plenty of processing time, therefore the server carrying out the action must have adequate resources to be able to process your data quick enough. An example how information can be compressed is to store how many sequential positions should have 1 and just how many should have 0 inside the binary code as an alternative to storing the particular 1s and 0s.

Data Compression in Cloud Web Hosting

The compression algorithm which we employ on the cloud internet hosting platform where your new cloud web hosting account will be created is known as LZ4 and it's used by the cutting-edge ZFS file system that powers the platform. The algorithm is far better than the ones other file systems use because its compression ratio is much higher and it processes data considerably faster. The speed is most noticeable when content is being uncompressed as this happens quicker than information can be read from a hdd. For that reason, LZ4 improves the performance of each Internet site hosted on a server that uses the algorithm. We take advantage of LZ4 in one more way - its speed and compression ratio make it possible for us to produce a couple of daily backups of the entire content of all accounts and store them for thirty days. Not only do our backups take less space, but in addition their generation will not slow the servers down like it can often happen with alternative file systems.

Data Compression in Semi-dedicated Hosting

The semi-dedicated hosting plans which we provide are created on a powerful cloud hosting platform which runs on the ZFS file system. ZFS employs a compression algorithm called LZ4 that is superior to any other algorithm these days in terms of speed and compression ratio when it comes to processing web content. This is valid particularly when data is uncompressed since LZ4 does that more quickly than it would be to read uncompressed data from a hard disk and because of this, Internet sites running on a platform where LZ4 is enabled will work at a higher speed. We're able to take full advantage of the feature although it requires quite a great deal of CPU processing time as our platform uses a number of powerful servers working together and we do not create accounts on a single machine like a lot of companies do. There is a further reward of using LZ4 - considering that it compresses data very well and does that very fast, we can also make multiple daily backups of all accounts without affecting the performance of the servers and keep them for a whole month. That way, you will always be able to restore any content that you delete by accident.