The term data compression identifies lowering the number of bits of information that should be stored or transmitted. This can be achieved with or without losing information, which means that what will be erased at the time of the compression shall be either redundant data or unnecessary one. When the data is uncompressed later on, in the first case the information and its quality will be identical, whereas in the second case the quality will be worse. There're various compression algorithms that are more efficient for different type of information. Compressing and uncompressing data often takes a lot of processing time, therefore the server performing the action must have ample resources in order to be able to process the data fast enough. An example how information can be compressed is to store just how many sequential positions should have 1 and how many should have 0 within the binary code rather than storing the actual 1s and 0s.

Data Compression in Cloud Web Hosting

The compression algorithm employed by the ZFS file system that runs on our cloud web hosting platform is named LZ4. It can upgrade the performance of any website hosted in a cloud web hosting account with us as not only does it compress info more efficiently than algorithms used by alternative file systems, but it also uncompresses data at speeds that are higher than the hard disk drive reading speeds. This is achieved by using a lot of CPU processing time, which is not a problem for our platform owing to the fact that it uses clusters of powerful servers working together. One more advantage of LZ4 is that it enables us to make backups quicker and on lower disk space, so we can have multiple daily backups of your files and databases and their generation won't influence the performance of the servers. In this way, we could always restore all content that you may have erased by accident.

Data Compression in Semi-dedicated Servers

Your semi-dedicated server account will be created on a cloud platform that runs using the cutting-edge ZFS file system. The aforementioned uses a compression algorithm known as LZ4, which is far better than all the other algorithms regarding compression ratio and speed. The gain is apparent particularly when data is being uncompressed and not only is LZ4 faster than other algorithms, but it is also faster in uncompressing data than a system is in reading from a hard disk. This is why sites running on a platform that employs LZ4 compression perform better as the algorithm is most effective when it processes compressible data i.e. web content. One more advantage of using LZ4 is that the backups of the semi-dedicated accounts which we keep require much less space and they're generated quicker, which enables us to store multiple daily backups of all your files and databases.