Data compression is the decrease of the number of bits that should be saved or transmitted and this process is quite important in the internet hosting field because data filed on hard disks is often compressed so as to take less space. You'll find many different algorithms for compressing info and they offer different effectiveness based on the content. A number of them remove just the redundant bits, so that no data can be lost, while others delete unneeded bits, which results in worse quality when your data is uncompressed. The method consumes a lot of processing time, therefore an internet hosting server has to be powerful enough in order to be able to compress and uncompress data in real time. One example how binary code can be compressed is by "remembering" that there're five sequential 1s, for example, rather than storing all five 1s.

Data Compression in Website Hosting

The ZFS file system that operates on our cloud Internet hosting platform uses a compression algorithm identified as LZ4. The latter is a lot faster and better than any other algorithm on the market, especially for compressing and uncompressing non-binary data i.e. internet content. LZ4 even uncompresses data quicker than it is read from a hard disk drive, which improves the performance of sites hosted on ZFS-based platforms. Because the algorithm compresses data really well and it does that very fast, we can generate several backups of all the content kept in the website hosting accounts on our servers on a daily basis. Both your content and its backups will need less space and since both ZFS and LZ4 work very quickly, the backup generation will not change the performance of the hosting servers where your content will be kept.

Data Compression in Semi-dedicated Hosting

The semi-dedicated hosting plans that we provide are created on a powerful cloud hosting platform that runs on the ZFS file system. ZFS uses a compression algorithm called LZ4 that outperforms any other algorithm available on the market in terms of speed and compression ratio when it comes to processing website content. This is valid especially when data is uncompressed since LZ4 does that more rapidly than it would be to read uncompressed data from a hard disk and owing to this, Internet sites running on a platform where LZ4 is present will work quicker. We're able to benefit from the feature regardless of the fact that it requires quite a great deal of CPU processing time as our platform uses a lot of powerful servers working together and we do not create accounts on just a single machine like most companies do. There's another benefit of using LZ4 - considering the fact that it compresses data rather well and does that speedily, we can also make multiple daily backup copies of all accounts without influencing the performance of the servers and keep them for 30 days. By doing this, you can always recover any content that you erase by mistake.