Data compression is the reduction of the number of bits that need to be saved or transmitted and this particular process is rather important in the internet hosting field since data kept on hard drives is usually compressed to take less space. There are different algorithms for compressing information and they provide different efficiency based on the content. Some of them remove only the redundant bits, so that no data will be lost, while others delete unneeded bits, which leads to worse quality when the particular data is uncompressed. This method consumes a lot of processing time, therefore a hosting server has to be powerful enough to be able to compress and uncompress data immediately. An instance how binary code could be compressed is by "remembering" that there're five consecutive 1s, for example, in contrast to storing all five 1s.
Data Compression in Shared Website Hosting
The cloud web hosting platform where your shared website hosting account shall be created uses the reliable ZFS file system. The LZ4 compression method which the aforementioned uses is greater in various aspects, and not only does it compress info better than any compression method that a variety of other file systems use, but it's also a lot faster. The benefits will be significant in particular on compressible content which includes website files. Although it could sound irrational, uncompressing data with LZ4 is faster than reading uncompressed data from a hard drive, so the performance of any site hosted on our servers will be better. The better and faster compression rates also make it possible for us to produce a number of daily backups of the whole content in every single Internet hosting account, so if you delete anything by mistake, the last backup that we have will not be more than a few hours old. This can be done because the backups take a lot less space and their generation is fast enough, so as to not influence the performance of our 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 can uncompress data at a higher speed than the same data can be read from a hard drive if it were uncompressed. Thus, using LZ4 will speed up any website that runs on a platform where this algorithm is present. The high performance requires plenty of CPU processing time, which is provided by the great number of clusters working together as part of our platform. In addition to that, LZ4 makes it possible for us to generate several backups of your content every day and have them for a month as they will take a reduced amount of space than typical backups and will be generated much more quickly without loading the servers.