Data compression is the lowering of the number of bits that need to be saved or transmitted and this process is rather important in the internet hosting field because info stored on hard disks is usually compressed to take less space. You can find various algorithms for compressing data and they have different efficiency based upon the content. A lot of them remove just the redundant bits, so that no data can be lost, while others remove unnecessary bits, which results in worse quality once the particular data is uncompressed. This method needs a lot of processing time, which means that a hosting server needs to be powerful enough in order to be able to compress and uncompress data in real time. 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 Hosting
The compression algorithm that we use on the cloud internet hosting platform where your new hosting account shall be created is called LZ4 and it's used by the leading-edge ZFS file system which powers the platform. The algorithm is more advanced than the ones other file systems employ as its compression ratio is much higher and it processes data significantly faster. The speed is most noticeable when content is being uncompressed since this happens quicker than info can be read from a hard disk drive. For that reason, LZ4 improves the performance of every website hosted on a server which uses this particular algorithm. We take full advantage of LZ4 in one more way - its speed and compression ratio let us make a number of daily backup copies of the full content of all accounts and keep them for thirty days. Not only do these backups take less space, but their generation doesn't slow the servers down like it often happens with alternative file systems.
Data Compression in Semi-dedicated Servers
If you host your Internet sites in a semi-dedicated server account with our firm, you can experience the advantages of LZ4 - the powerful compression algorithm employed by the ZFS file system that is behind our advanced cloud web hosting platform. What separates LZ4 from all other algorithms out there is that it has a higher compression ratio and it is considerably quicker, particularly with regard to uncompressing web content. It does that even quicker than uncompressed information can be read from a hard drive, so your Internet sites will perform faster. The higher speed comes at the expense of using a great deal of CPU processing time, that is not a problem for our platform because it consists of a lot of clusters working together. Besides the improved performance, you'll have multiple daily backups at your disposal, so you could restore any deleted content with a few clicks. The backups are available for a whole month and we can afford to keep them as they take significantly less space compared to traditional backups.