The term data compression means lowering the number of bits of data which has to be stored or transmitted. This can be achieved with or without losing data, which means that what will be removed throughout the compression shall be either redundant data or unneeded one. When the data is uncompressed later on, in the first case the content and its quality shall be identical, whereas in the second case the quality will be worse. You can find different compression algorithms which are more effective for various sort of data. Compressing and uncompressing data normally takes plenty of processing time, so the server performing the action needs to have ample resources in order to be able to process your info fast enough. An example how information can be compressed is to store just how many consecutive positions should have 1 and how many should have 0 inside the binary code as an alternative to storing the particular 1s and 0s.

Data Compression in Shared Hosting

The cloud hosting platform where your shared hosting account will be created uses the reliable ZFS file system. The LZ4 compression method which the latter employs is greater in a number of aspects, and not only does it compress info better than any compression method which some other file systems use, but it's also much faster. The benefits can be significant in particular on compressible content like website files. Despite the fact that it may sound illogical, uncompressing data with LZ4 is faster than reading uncompressed data from a hard disk drive, so the performance of each and every Internet site hosted on our servers shall be boosted. The better and faster compression rates also make it possible for us to produce a number of daily backups of the whole content in each and every hosting account, so if you delete anything by mistake, the last backup that we have won't be more than several hours old. This can be done as the backups take significantly less space and their generation is quick enough, to not influence the performance of the servers.

Data Compression in Semi-dedicated Hosting

The semi-dedicated hosting plans which we supply are created on a powerful cloud hosting platform that runs on the ZFS file system. ZFS uses a compression algorithm known as LZ4 that exceeds any other algorithm you will find in terms of speed and data compression ratio when it comes to processing website content. This is valid particularly when data is uncompressed since LZ4 does that a lot faster than it would be to read uncompressed data from a hard drive and for that reason, Internet sites running on a platform where LZ4 is enabled will function at a higher speed. We're able to benefit from the feature despite of the fact that it requires quite a great deal of CPU processing time because our platform uses a lot of powerful servers working together and we don't create accounts on a single machine like the vast majority of companies do. There's another benefit of using LZ4 - considering the fact that it compresses data really well and does that speedily, we can also make several daily backup copies of all accounts without influencing the performance of the servers and keep them for 30 days. In this way, you can always bring back any content that you erase by accident.