Data compression is the lowering of the number of bits which should be stored or transmitted and this process is rather important in the web hosting field because data located on HDDs is typically compressed in order to take less space. You can find different algorithms for compressing info and they offer different effectiveness based upon the content. Some of them remove just the redundant bits, so that no data can be lost, while others delete unneeded bits, which results in worse quality once the data is uncompressed. This process consumes a lot of processing time, which means that an internet hosting server needs to be powerful enough so as to be able to compress and uncompress data in real time. An instance how binary code may be compressed is by "remembering" that there are five sequential 1s, for example, as an alternative to storing all five 1s.
Data Compression in Cloud Website Hosting
The compression algorithm which we work with on the cloud web hosting platform where your new cloud website hosting account will be created is named LZ4 and it is used by the revolutionary ZFS file system which powers the platform. The algorithm is a lot better than the ones other file systems use because its compression ratio is a lot higher and it processes data a lot quicker. The speed is most noticeable when content is being uncompressed since this happens even faster than info can be read from a hard disk drive. As a result, LZ4 improves the performance of each Internet site located on a server that uses the algorithm. We take full advantage of LZ4 in an additional way - its speed and compression ratio allow us to produce a couple of daily backup copies of the entire content of all accounts and store them for thirty days. Not only do these backup copies take less space, but also their generation does not slow the servers down like it can often happen with many other file systems.
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 web content, as its ratio is very high and it'll uncompress data much faster than the same data can be read from a hard disk drive if it were uncompressed. Thus, using LZ4 will speed up every site that runs on a platform where the algorithm is enabled. The high performance requires a lot of CPU processing time, that is provided by the great number of clusters working together as a part of our platform. What's more, LZ4 makes it possible for us to generate several backups of your content every day and have them for one month as they'll take much less space than regular backups and will be created considerably quicker without loading the servers.