Data compression is the decrease of the number of bits that should be saved or transmitted and this particular process is quite important in the internet hosting field as info stored on HDDs is generally compressed so as to take less space. You can find many different algorithms for compressing info and they provide different efficiency based upon the content. A lot of them remove only the redundant bits, so that no data can be lost, while others erase unnecessary bits, which leads to worse quality when the particular data is uncompressed. This method needs a lot of processing time, therefore an internet hosting server needs to be powerful enough to be able to compress and uncompress data right away. An illustration how binary code could be compressed is by "remembering" that there are five consecutive 1s, for example, rather than storing all five 1s.
Data Compression in Cloud Web Hosting
The cloud web hosting platform where your cloud web hosting account shall be created employs the reliable ZFS file system. The LZ4 compression method that the latter uses is greater in various aspects, and not only does it compress information better than any compression method which a variety of other file systems use, but it is also much quicker. The benefits will be significant particularly on compressible content like website files. While it may sound irrational, uncompressing data with LZ4 is faster than reading uncompressed info from a hard disk, so the performance of any site hosted on our servers will be improved. The better and quicker compression rates also allow us to make a large number of daily backups of the whole content in each and every Internet hosting account, so should you delete anything by mistake, the last backup which we have will not be more than a few hours old. This can be done as the backups take considerably less space and their generation is quick enough, so as to not change the performance of our servers.
Data Compression in Semi-dedicated Servers
In case you host your Internet sites in a semi-dedicated server account with our firm, you'll be able to experience the advantages of LZ4 - the powerful compression algorithm employed by the ZFS file system that is behind our advanced cloud web hosting platform. What separates LZ4 from all other algorithms out there is that it has a better compression ratio and it is way quicker, in particular when it comes to uncompressing website content. It does that even quicker than uncompressed data can be read from a hard disk drive, so your websites will perform better. The higher speed comes at the expense of using a lot of CPU processing time, which is not an issue for our platform as it consists of a lot of clusters working together. In combination with the improved performance, you'll also have multiple daily backups at your disposal, so you could recover any deleted content with just a few clicks. The backups are available for an entire month and we can afford to keep them since they need a lot less space than ordinary backups.