The term data compression means reducing the number of bits of information which has to be saved or transmitted. This can be achieved with or without the loss of information, so what will be deleted throughout the compression shall be either redundant data or unneeded one. When the data is uncompressed subsequently, in the first case the info and the quality shall be identical, while in the second case the quality shall be worse. There're various compression algorithms that are better for different type of info. Compressing and uncompressing data in most cases takes a lot of processing time, so the server executing the action should have plenty of resources to be able to process your info fast enough. One simple example how information can be compressed is to store just how many sequential positions should have 1 and just how many should have 0 in the binary code instead of storing the particular 1s and 0s.

Data Compression in Hosting

The ZFS file system which operates on our cloud Internet hosting platform uses a compression algorithm called LZ4. The aforementioned is considerably faster and better than any other algorithm on the market, especially for compressing and uncompressing non-binary data i.e. web content. LZ4 even uncompresses data quicker than it is read from a hard disk drive, which improves the overall performance of sites hosted on ZFS-based platforms. As the algorithm compresses data quite well and it does that quickly, we're able to generate several backup copies of all the content kept in the hosting accounts on our servers daily. Both your content and its backups will require reduced space and since both ZFS and LZ4 work very quickly, the backup generation will not change the performance of the servers where your content will be kept.

Data Compression in Semi-dedicated Hosting

The ZFS file system which 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 definitely the most efficient one when it comes to compressing and uncompressing web content, as its ratio is very high and it will uncompress data quicker than the same data can be read from a hard drive if it were uncompressed. In this way, using LZ4 will accelerate any website that runs on a platform where this algorithm is present. The high performance requires lots of CPU processing time, that is provided by the great number of clusters working together as part of our platform. Furthermore, LZ4 enables us to generate several backups of your content every day and save them for a month as they will take much less space than standard backups and will be created considerably quicker without loading the servers.