The term data compression describes reducing the number of bits of data which has to be saved or transmitted. This can be achieved with or without the loss of info, which means that what will be removed in the course of the compression will be either redundant data or unnecessary one. When the data is uncompressed subsequently, in the first case the content and the quality will be identical, while in the second case the quality will be worse. There are different compression algorithms that are more efficient for different sort of information. Compressing and uncompressing data in most cases takes a lot of processing time, so the server performing the action needs to have adequate resources in order to be able to process the data quick enough. An example how information can be compressed is to store just how many consecutive positions should have 1 and how many should have 0 within the binary code as an alternative to storing the particular 1s and 0s.

Data Compression in Cloud Website Hosting

The cloud internet hosting platform where your cloud website hosting account shall be generated employs the outstanding ZFS file system. The LZ4 compression method which the latter uses is greater in numerous aspects, and not only does it compress information better than any compression method that a number of other file systems use, but it is also quicker. The benefits may be significant particularly on compressible content like website files. Even though it could sound unreasonable, uncompressing data with LZ4 is faster than reading uncompressed info from a hard disk, so the performance of any website hosted on our servers shall be boosted. The better and quicker compression rates also allow us to make numerous daily backups of the whole content in each and every Internet hosting account, so should you delete something by mistake, the last back-up copy which we have won't be more than a couple of hours old. This can be done because the backups take much less space and their generation is quick enough, so as to not affect the performance of our servers.

Data Compression in Semi-dedicated Servers

Your semi-dedicated server account will be created on a cloud platform which runs using the cutting-edge ZFS file system. The latter uses a compression algorithm known as LZ4, that's significantly better than various other algorithms regarding compression ratio and speed. The gain is significant especially when data is being uncompressed and not only is LZ4 much faster than other algorithms, but it is also quicker in uncompressing data than a system is in reading from a hard disk drive. This is the reason why Internet sites running on a platform that uses LZ4 compression perform faster because the algorithm is most efficient when it processes compressible data i.e. website content. A further advantage of using LZ4 is that the backup copies of the semi-dedicated accounts that we keep need much less space and are generated quicker, which allows us to store multiple daily backups of your files and databases.