Data compression is the compacting of information by lowering the number of bits that are stored or transmitted. In this way, the compressed data will need substantially less disk space than the initial one, so more content can be stored using identical amount of space. There're various compression algorithms that work in different ways and with some of them only the redundant bits are deleted, so once the data is uncompressed, there's no loss of quality. Others erase unneeded bits, but uncompressing the data later on will lead to lower quality in comparison with the original. Compressing and uncompressing content takes a large amount of system resources, and in particular CPU processing time, therefore any web hosting platform which uses compression in real time needs to have ample power to support that feature. An example how information can be compressed is to replace a binary code such as 111111 with 6x1 i.e. "remembering" the number of sequential 1s or 0s there should be instead of storing the entire code.

Data Compression in Cloud Web Hosting

The cloud web hosting platform where your cloud web hosting account will be made works by using the revolutionary ZFS file system. The LZ4 compression method which the latter uses is superior in a number of aspects, and not only does it compress info better than any compression method which some other file systems use, but it is also much quicker. The benefits are 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 disk drive, so the performance of any website hosted on our servers will be boosted. The better and faster compression rates also allow us to make numerous daily backups of the entire content in every single Internet hosting account, so should you delete something by mistake, the last back-up copy that we have will not be more than several hours old. This can be done as the backups take significantly less space and their generation is fast enough, so as to not affect the performance of the 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 website content, as its ratio is very high and it will uncompress data faster than the same data can be read from a hard disk drive if it were uncompressed. In this way, using LZ4 will boost any kind of site that runs on a platform where the algorithm is present. The high performance requires a lot of CPU processing time, that's provided by the multitude of clusters working together as a part of our platform. Furthermore, LZ4 makes it possible for us to generate several backup copies of your content every day and have them for one month as they will take a reduced amount of space than standard backups and will be created considerably faster without loading the servers.