Data compression is the compacting of data by reducing the number of bits which are stored or transmitted. Consequently, the compressed data takes less disk space than the original one, so much more content can be stored using identical amount of space. You can find many different compression algorithms that function in different ways and with some of them just the redundant bits are deleted, therefore once the information is uncompressed, there is no decrease in quality. Others erase unnecessary bits, but uncompressing the data subsequently will lead to lower quality compared to the original. Compressing and uncompressing content requires a significant amount of system resources, and in particular CPU processing time, therefore each and every Internet hosting platform which employs compression in real time should have adequate power to support this feature. An example how info can be compressed is to replace a binary code such as 111111 with 6x1 i.e. "remembering" what number of consecutive 1s or 0s there should be instead of storing the entire code.

Data Compression in Cloud Hosting

The compression algorithm employed by the ZFS file system which runs on our cloud internet hosting platform is known as LZ4. It can upgrade the performance of any website hosted in a cloud hosting account with us because not only does it compress info more efficiently than algorithms used by various file systems, but it also uncompresses data at speeds that are higher than the hard disk reading speeds. This can be done by using a lot 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 enables us to generate backups faster and on less disk space, so we shall have multiple daily backups of your databases and files and their generation won't influence the performance of the servers. That way, we could always recover all of the content that you could have removed by mistake.

Data Compression in Semi-dedicated Servers

The ZFS file system that runs on the cloud platform where your semi-dedicated server account will be created uses a powerful compression algorithm called LZ4. It is among the best algorithms out there and certainly the best one when it comes to compressing and uncompressing web content, as its ratio is very high and it'll uncompress data faster than the same data can be read from a hard disk drive if it were uncompressed. This way, using LZ4 will boost every website that runs on a platform where this algorithm is enabled. This high performance requires plenty of CPU processing time, that is provided by the numerous clusters working together as part of our platform. Furthermore, LZ4 makes it possible for us to generate several backups of your content every day and save them for one month as they will take much less space than regular backups and will be created much quicker without loading the servers.