Data compression is the decrease of the number of bits that should be stored or transmitted and this process is very important in the internet hosting field as information recorded on HDDs is typically compressed in order to take less space. You will find many different algorithms for compressing data and they provide different efficiency depending on the content. Some of them remove just the redundant bits, so no data can be lost, while others erase unneeded bits, which leads to worse quality once the data is uncompressed. This method requires plenty of processing time, therefore an internet hosting server has to be powerful enough in order to be able to compress and uncompress data quickly. One example how binary code may be compressed is by "remembering" that there're five sequential 1s, for example, in contrast to storing all five 1s.
Data Compression in Shared Website Hosting
The cloud hosting platform where your shared website hosting account is generated works by using the advanced ZFS file system. The LZ4 compression method that the aforementioned employs is superior in various aspects, and not only does it compress information better than any compression method which many other file systems use, but it's also faster. The benefits are significant especially on compressible content which includes website files. Despite the fact that it could sound irrational, uncompressing data with LZ4 is quicker than reading uncompressed info from a hard disk, so the performance of each website hosted on our servers shall be enhanced. The better and faster compression rates also make it possible for us to generate multiple daily backups of the entire content in each hosting account, so in the event you delete anything by accident, the last back-up copy that we have will not be more than a few hours old. This is possible because the backups take a lot 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 ZFS file system that runs on the cloud platform where your semi-dedicated hosting 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 will uncompress data a lot faster than the same data can be read from a hard drive if it were uncompressed. This way, using LZ4 will quicken any site that runs on a platform where this algorithm is enabled. The high performance requires plenty of CPU processing time, that's provided by the numerous clusters working together as a part of our platform. In addition to that, LZ4 makes it possible for us to generate several backups of your content every day and keep them for a month as they will take a smaller amount of space than standard backups and will be generated much more quickly without loading the servers.