The term data compression identifies reducing the number of bits of info which should be stored or transmitted. You can do this with or without the loss of data, so what will be removed in the course of the compression shall be either redundant data or unneeded one. When the data is uncompressed later on, in the first case the data and its quality will be identical, whereas in the second case the quality shall be worse. There're different compression algorithms that are more efficient for various type of information. Compressing and uncompressing data usually takes lots of processing time, therefore the server performing the action should have enough resources to be able to process your data fast enough. An example how information can be compressed is to store how many consecutive positions should have 1 and how many should have 0 in the binary code as an alternative to storing the actual 1s and 0s.

Data Compression in Shared Hosting

The cloud internet hosting platform where your shared hosting account will be made employs the impressive ZFS file system. The LZ4 compression method which the aforementioned employs is greater in numerous aspects, and not only does it compress info better than any compression method that some other file systems use, but it's also a lot quicker. The benefits may be significant particularly on compressible content like website files. Despite the fact that it may sound unreasonable, uncompressing data with LZ4 is quicker than reading uncompressed data from a hard drive, so the performance of every website hosted on our servers will be enhanced. The better and faster compression rates also make it possible for us to produce numerous daily backups of the entire content in every single hosting account, so should you delete something by mistake, the last backup that we have will not be more than a couple of hours old. This can be done as the backups take a lot less space and their generation is quick enough, so as to not change the performance of the servers.

Data Compression in Semi-dedicated Hosting

The semi-dedicated hosting plans that we offer are created on a powerful cloud hosting platform which runs on the ZFS file system. ZFS employs a compression algorithm known as LZ4 that is greater than any other algorithm out there in terms of speed and data compression ratio when it comes to processing web content. This is valid especially when data is uncompressed as LZ4 does that quicker than it would be to read uncompressed data from a hard drive and for that reason, sites running on a platform where LZ4 is present will function faster. We can take full advantage of the feature although it requires quite a great deal of CPU processing time as our platform uses a number of powerful servers working together and we don't make accounts on just a single machine like a lot of companies do. There is a further advantage of using LZ4 - considering the fact that it compresses data rather well and does that very fast, we can also make several daily backup copies of all accounts without affecting the performance of the servers and keep them for a month. That way, you can always recover any content that you erase by accident.