The term data compression describes lowering the number of bits of information which needs to be saved or transmitted. This can be done with or without losing data, so what will be deleted in the course of the compression will be either redundant data or unneeded one. When the data is uncompressed afterwards, in the first case the data and the quality shall be the same, whereas in the second case the quality will be worse. You'll find different compression algorithms that are more effective for various kind of information. Compressing and uncompressing data in most cases takes plenty of processing time, which means that the server performing the action must have sufficient resources to be able to process the info quick enough. A simple example how information can be compressed is to store how many sequential positions should have 1 and just how many should have 0 within the binary code rather than storing the particular 1s and 0s.

Data Compression in Cloud Hosting

The ZFS file system that is run on our cloud Internet hosting platform uses a compression algorithm named LZ4. The latter is significantly faster and better than any other algorithm you will find, especially for compressing and uncompressing non-binary data i.e. internet content. LZ4 even uncompresses data faster than it is read from a hard drive, which improves the overall performance of sites hosted on ZFS-based platforms. Due to the fact that the algorithm compresses data quite well and it does that very quickly, we're able to generate several backups of all the content stored in the cloud hosting accounts on our servers on a daily basis. Both your content and its backups will require less space and since both ZFS and LZ4 work very quickly, the backup generation will not influence the performance of the servers where your content will be stored.

Data Compression in Semi-dedicated Hosting

The ZFS file system which runs on the cloud platform where your semi-dedicated hosting account will be created uses a powerful compression algorithm called LZ4. It's one of the best algorithms out there and certainly the most efficient one when it comes to compressing and uncompressing web content, as its ratio is very high and it will 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 any kind of website that runs on a platform where this algorithm is enabled. The high performance requires lots of CPU processing time, that is provided by the numerous clusters working together as a part of our platform. What's more, LZ4 allows us to generate several backup copies of your content every day and save them for a month as they will take much less space than standard backups and will be generated much more quickly without loading the servers.