Data compression is the compacting of info by lowering the number of bits that are stored or transmitted. Because of this, the compressed info will need considerably less disk space than the original one, so additional content could be stored using the same amount of space. There are many different compression algorithms which function in different ways and with a lot of them just the redundant bits are removed, which means that once the info is uncompressed, there's no decrease in quality. Others erase excessive bits, but uncompressing the data following that will lead to lower quality in comparison with the original. Compressing and uncompressing content takes a significant amount of system resources, especially CPU processing time, so any hosting platform which uses compression in real time needs to have ample power to support that feature. 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 storing the whole code.

Data Compression in Shared Hosting

The cloud web hosting platform where your shared hosting account shall be made works by using the cutting-edge ZFS file system. The LZ4 compression method that the aforementioned employs is greater in a number of aspects, and not only does it compress info better than any compression method which similar file systems use, but it's also a lot quicker. The benefits are significant particularly on compressible content such as website files. Even though it may sound unreasonable, uncompressing data with LZ4 is quicker than reading uncompressed info from a hard disk drive, so the performance of each and every Internet site hosted on our servers will be upgraded. The better and faster compression rates also allow us to generate a large number of daily backups of the entire content in each and every web hosting account, so should you delete anything by accident, the last backup that we have will not be more than a couple of hours old. This is possible as the backups take a lot less space and their generation is quick enough, so as to not influence the performance of our servers.

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's one of the best algorithms out there and definitely the most efficient one when it comes to compressing and uncompressing web content, as its ratio is very high and it will uncompress data at a higher speed than the same data can be read from a hard drive if it were uncompressed. That way, using LZ4 will quicken every Internet site that runs on a platform where this algorithm is enabled. The high performance requires plenty of CPU processing time, that is provided by the multitude of clusters working together as part of our platform. Furthermore, LZ4 enables us to generate several backups of your content every day and save them for one month as they'll take a smaller amount of space than typical backups and will be generated considerably faster without loading the servers.