Data compression is the compacting of information by lowering the number of bits which are stored or transmitted. In this way, the compressed info takes considerably less disk space than the original one, so extra content could be stored on the same amount of space. You can find different compression algorithms which work in different ways and with many of them only the redundant bits are deleted, therefore once the data is uncompressed, there is no decrease in quality. Others erase unnecessary bits, but uncompressing the data at a later time will lead to reduced quality compared to the original. Compressing and uncompressing content requires a significant amount of system resources, and in particular CPU processing time, therefore any Internet hosting platform that uses compression in real time should have sufficient power to support that feature. An example how info can be compressed is to replace a binary code such as 111111 with 6x1 i.e. "remembering" how many sequential 1s or 0s there should be instead of keeping the whole code.

Data Compression in Web Hosting

The cloud web hosting platform where your web hosting account will be made employs the revolutionary ZFS file system. The LZ4 compression method that the latter employs is better in various aspects, and not only does it compress information better than any compression method which similar file systems use, but it's also much quicker. The benefits may be significant particularly on compressible content which includes website files. Despite the fact that it could sound unreasonable, uncompressing data with LZ4 is faster than reading uncompressed data from a hard disk drive, so the performance of each and every website hosted on our servers will be upgraded. The better and faster compression rates also make it possible for us to make a number of daily backups of the entire content in every single hosting account, so should you delete something by mistake, the last back-up copy that we have won't be more than a few hours old. This can be done because the backups take considerably less space and their generation is quick enough, so as to not affect 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 works with a compression algorithm called LZ4 that outperforms any other algorithm these days in terms of speed and data compression ratio when it comes to processing web content. This is valid particularly when data is uncompressed as LZ4 does that much faster than it would be to read uncompressed data from a hard disk and as a result, websites running on a platform where LZ4 is enabled will function quicker. We are able to take advantage of the feature despite of the fact that it needs quite a great deal of CPU processing time as our platform uses numerous powerful servers working together and we don't create accounts on just a single machine like many companies do. There is a further reward of using LZ4 - considering the fact that it compresses data very well and does that very fast, we can also make multiple daily backup copies of all accounts without influencing the performance of the servers and keep them for a whole month. By doing this, you can always recover any content that you delete by accident.