The term data compression identifies decreasing the number of bits of information which should be stored or transmitted. You can do this with or without losing info, which means that what will be erased in the course of the compression can be either redundant data or unnecessary one. When the data is uncompressed subsequently, in the first case the data and its quality will be identical, while in the second case the quality will be worse. You will find various compression algorithms that are more effective for different kind of info. Compressing and uncompressing data usually takes a lot of processing time, which means that the server performing the action must have sufficient resources to be able to process the data fast enough. One simple example how information can be compressed is to store how many sequential positions should have 1 and just how many should have 0 inside the binary code rather than storing the particular 1s and 0s.

Data Compression in Cloud Website Hosting

The compression algorithm employed by the ZFS file system that runs on our cloud internet hosting platform is known as LZ4. It can supercharge the performance of any website hosted in a cloud website hosting account on our end as not only does it compress data more efficiently than algorithms used by various other file systems, but also uncompresses data at speeds that are higher than the hard disk reading speeds. This is achieved by using a great deal of CPU processing time, that is not a problem for our platform for the reason that it uses clusters of powerful servers working together. A further advantage of LZ4 is that it allows us to create backup copies quicker and on reduced disk space, so we shall have several daily backups of your files and databases and their generation won't influence the performance of the servers. This way, we can always restore all of the content that you may have removed by mistake.

Data Compression in Semi-dedicated Servers

Your semi-dedicated server account will be created on a cloud platform which is run on the cutting-edge ZFS file system. The aforementioned uses a compression algorithm called LZ4, which is a lot better than other algorithms in terms of compression ratio and speed. The gain is apparent particularly when data is being uncompressed and not only is LZ4 a lot faster than other algorithms, but it is also quicker in uncompressing data than a system is in reading from a hard drive. That is why sites running on a platform which uses LZ4 compression perform better because the algorithm is most effective when it processes compressible data i.e. site content. One more advantage of using LZ4 is that the backup copies of the semi-dedicated accounts which we keep take less space and they're generated faster, which allows us to have multiple daily backups of your files and databases.