Data compression is the compacting of information by lowering the number of bits that are stored or transmitted. Thus, the compressed info needs considerably less disk space than the original one, so more content can be stored using the same amount of space. You can find many different compression algorithms that function in different ways and with a lot of them only the redundant bits are deleted, which means that once the data is uncompressed, there's no loss of quality. Others delete unneeded bits, but uncompressing the data later on will lead to reduced quality compared to the original. Compressing and uncompressing content requires a significant amount of system resources, particularly CPU processing time, so any hosting platform which uses compression in real time must have sufficient power to support this attribute. An example how info can be compressed is to substitute 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 actual code.

Data Compression in Cloud Website Hosting

The compression algorithm which we use on the cloud hosting platform where your new cloud website hosting account shall be created is called LZ4 and it's applied by the advanced ZFS file system that powers the platform. The algorithm is more advanced than the ones other file systems work with since its compression ratio is much higher and it processes data considerably faster. The speed is most noticeable when content is being uncompressed since this happens even faster than data can be read from a hard drive. For that reason, LZ4 improves the performance of any 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 make it possible for us to produce a number of daily backup copies of the whole content of all accounts and store them for a month. Not only do these backups take less space, but in addition their generation won't slow the servers down like it often happens with alternative file systems.

Data Compression in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you host your sites in a semi-dedicated hosting account from our company, you'll be able to experience the advantages of LZ4 - the powerful compression algorithm employed by the ZFS file system that is behind our advanced cloud hosting platform. What distinguishes LZ4 from all the other algorithms out there is that it has a higher compression ratio and it is considerably quicker, especially with regard to uncompressing web content. It does that even faster than uncompressed data can be read from a hard drive, so your sites will perform faster. The higher speed is at the expense of using a considerable amount of CPU processing time, that's not an issue for our platform because it consists of a lot of clusters working together. Along with the better performance, you will also have multiple daily backups at your disposal, so you'll be able to recover any deleted content with a couple of clicks. The backup copies are available for an entire month and we can afford to keep them since they need significantly less space than ordinary backups.