Data compression is the decrease of the number of bits which should be saved or transmitted and the process is rather important in the internet hosting field because info filed on hard disk drives is generally compressed to take less space. You'll find many different algorithms for compressing data and they provide different efficiency based on the content. A number of them remove only the redundant bits, so no data will be lost, while others erase unneeded bits, which leads to worse quality when the particular data is uncompressed. This process uses plenty of processing time, therefore an internet hosting server should be powerful enough to be able to compress and uncompress data right away. An instance how binary code can be compressed is by "remembering" that there are five sequential 1s, for example, in contrast to storing all five 1s.

Data Compression in Cloud Hosting

The ZFS file system which is run on our cloud Internet hosting platform uses a compression algorithm named LZ4. The latter is substantially faster and better than any other algorithm available on the market, particularly for compressing and uncompressing non-binary data i.e. internet content. LZ4 even uncompresses data faster than it is read from a hard disk, which improves the overall performance of Internet sites hosted on ZFS-based platforms. Due to the fact that the algorithm compresses data quite well and it does that quickly, we can generate several backups of all the content stored in the cloud hosting accounts on our servers every day. Both your content and its backups will need reduced space and since both ZFS and LZ4 work extremely fast, the backup generation will not change the performance of the web hosting servers where your content will be kept.

Data Compression in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you host your Internet sites in a semi-dedicated hosting account with our firm, you'll be able to experience the advantages of LZ4 - the powerful compression algorithm used by the ZFS file system which is behind our advanced cloud Internet hosting platform. What separates LZ4 from all the other algorithms out there is that it has an improved compression ratio and it is much faster, in particular when it comes to uncompressing web content. It does that even quicker than uncompressed information can be read from a hard disk drive, so your sites will perform faster. The higher speed comes at the expense of using plenty of CPU processing time, which is not a problem for our platform as it consists of numerous clusters working together. Besides the superior performance, you will also have multiple daily backup copies at your disposal, so you'll be able to restore any deleted content with a couple of clicks. The backup copies are available for an entire month and we can afford to keep them as they take a lot less space compared to traditional backups.