The term data compression means decreasing the number of bits of info which needs to be saved or transmitted. You can do this with or without losing information, which means that what will be deleted throughout the compression shall be either redundant data or unnecessary one. When the data is uncompressed subsequently, in the first case the information and the quality will be identical, while in the second case the quality shall be worse. You will find different compression algorithms that are more efficient for various sort of info. Compressing and uncompressing data usually takes plenty of processing time, therefore the server carrying out the action must have adequate resources in order to be able to process your info fast enough. A simple example how information can be compressed is to store how many consecutive positions should have 1 and how many should have 0 in the binary code instead of storing the actual 1s and 0s.

Data Compression in Website Hosting

The cloud internet hosting platform where your website hosting account will be made employs the innovative ZFS file system. The LZ4 compression method which the aforementioned employs is better in various aspects, and not only does it compress information better than any compression method that some other file systems use, but it is also much faster. The benefits will be significant especially on compressible content such as website files. Although it could sound illogical, uncompressing data with LZ4 is quicker than reading uncompressed info from a hard drive, so the performance of each and every website hosted on our servers will be improved. The better and faster compression rates also allow us to generate numerous daily backups of the whole content in each Internet hosting account, so if you delete anything by accident, the last back-up copy which we have won't be more than a few hours old. This is possible because the backups take much less space and their generation is quick enough, to not change the performance of the servers.

Data Compression in Semi-dedicated Servers

The semi-dedicated server plans that we provide are created on a powerful cloud platform which runs on the ZFS file system. ZFS employs a compression algorithm called LZ4 that surpasses any other algorithm available in terms of speed and data compression ratio when it comes to processing web content. This is valid especially when data is uncompressed since LZ4 does that more quickly than it would be to read uncompressed data from a hard disk and for that reason, websites running on a platform where LZ4 is present will function at a higher speed. We can take advantage of this feature regardless of the fact that it requires quite a large amount of CPU processing time as our platform uses many powerful servers working together and we do not create accounts on just a single machine like a lot of companies do. There's one more advantage of using LZ4 - considering that it compresses data very well and does that very fast, we can also make several daily backup copies of all accounts without affecting the performance of the servers and keep them for an entire month. That way, you can always bring back any content that you delete by mistake.