Data compression is the decrease of the number of bits that should be saved or transmitted and this process is really important in the internet hosting field since data located on HDDs is usually compressed so as to take less space. You can find various algorithms for compressing information and they provide different effectiveness based on the content. A lot of them remove only the redundant bits, so no data will be lost, while others remove unnecessary bits, which results in worse quality when the particular data is uncompressed. This process uses a lot of processing time, which means that an internet hosting server has to be powerful enough to be able to compress and uncompress data immediately. An instance how binary code may be compressed is by "remembering" that there are five consecutive 1s, for example, rather than storing all five 1s.

Data Compression in Cloud Hosting

The compression algorithm used by the ZFS file system which runs on our cloud web hosting platform is known as LZ4. It can supercharge the performance of any Internet site hosted in a cloud hosting account with us as not only does it compress data much better than algorithms employed by other file systems, but it also uncompresses data at speeds that are higher than the hard disk drive reading speeds. This is achieved by using a great deal of CPU processing time, that is not a problem for our platform because it uses clusters of powerful servers working together. A further advantage of LZ4 is that it allows us to make backups more rapidly and on lower disk space, so we shall have a couple of daily backups of your files and databases and their generation will not affect the performance of the servers. That way, we can always restore any content that you could have deleted by accident.

Data Compression in Semi-dedicated Servers

The ZFS file system which 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 most efficient one when it comes to compressing and uncompressing website content, as its ratio is very high and it can uncompress data faster than the same data can be read from a hard drive if it were uncompressed. Thus, using LZ4 will accelerate every site that runs on a platform where this algorithm is present. This high performance requires plenty of CPU processing time, which is provided by the large number of clusters working together as part of our platform. What's more, LZ4 allows us to generate several backup copies of your content every day and save them for a month as they'll take a smaller amount of space than regular backups and will be generated much quicker without loading the servers.