Data compression is the decrease of the number of bits that should be saved or transmitted and this process is very important in the internet hosting field because information kept on hard disks is usually compressed to take less space. You can find many different algorithms for compressing data and they provide different effectiveness based upon the content. A lot of them remove only the redundant bits, so that no data can be lost, while others erase unneeded bits, which leads to worse quality when your data is uncompressed. This method needs plenty of processing time, so a hosting server should be powerful enough so as to be able to compress and uncompress data quickly. An illustration how binary code may be compressed is by "remembering" that there're five consecutive 1s, for example, in contrast to storing all five 1s.
Data Compression in Cloud Hosting
The compression algorithm used by the ZFS file system which runs on our cloud web hosting platform is known as LZ4. It can supercharge the performance of any site hosted in a cloud hosting account with us as not only does it compress info more effectively than algorithms employed by various other file systems, but it uncompresses data at speeds that are higher than the hard disk reading speeds. This can be done by using a great deal of CPU processing time, which is not a problem for our platform considering the fact that it uses clusters of powerful servers working together. A further advantage of LZ4 is that it enables us to make backup copies more speedily and on lower disk space, so we will have multiple daily backups of your databases and files and their generation won't influence the performance of the servers. That way, we could always recover the content that you could have deleted by mistake.
Data Compression in Semi-dedicated Servers
The ZFS file system that runs on the cloud platform where your semi-dedicated server account will be created uses a powerful compression algorithm called LZ4. It is one of the best algorithms out there and positively 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 drive if it were uncompressed. That way, using LZ4 will boost any kind of site that runs on a platform where this algorithm is present. This high performance requires lots of CPU processing time, that's provided by the great number of clusters working together as a part of our platform. In addition to that, LZ4 enables us to generate several backups of your content every day and save them for a month as they will take a reduced amount of space than regular backups and will be created much more quickly without loading the servers.