The term data compression describes reducing the number of bits of data which should be stored or transmitted. You can do this with or without losing data, which means that what will be deleted in the course of the compression can be either redundant data or unneeded one. When the data is uncompressed later on, in the first case the information and its quality will be identical, whereas in the second case the quality shall be worse. There are different compression algorithms that are more effective for various sort of data. Compressing and uncompressing data generally takes plenty of processing time, so the server executing the action needs to have ample resources to be able to process your info fast enough. A simple example how information can be compressed is to store how many consecutive positions should have 1 and how many should have 0 within the binary code rather than storing the particular 1s and 0s.

Data Compression in Shared Hosting

The cloud hosting platform where your shared hosting account shall be generated works by using the advanced ZFS file system. The LZ4 compression method that the aforementioned uses is better in a number of aspects, and not only does it compress info better than any compression method which other file systems use, but it's also faster. The benefits can be significant in particular on compressible content which includes website files. Although it could sound illogical, uncompressing data with LZ4 is quicker than reading uncompressed data from a hard disk drive, so the performance of each and every Internet site hosted on our servers shall be upgraded. The better and quicker compression rates also allow us to produce a large number of daily backups of the whole content in each and every Internet hosting account, so in the event you delete anything by mistake, the last backup which we have won't be more than a few hours old. This is possible because the backups take much less space and their generation is quick enough, to not affect the performance of the servers.

Data Compression in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Your semi-dedicated hosting account will be created on a cloud platform that is run on the cutting-edge ZFS file system. The latter uses a compression algorithm called LZ4, that is significantly better than alternative algorithms when it comes to compression ratio and speed. The gain is apparent especially when data is being uncompressed and not only is LZ4 a lot faster than other algorithms, but it is also faster in uncompressing data than a system is in reading from a hard disk. Because of this Internet sites running on a platform which uses LZ4 compression perform better since the algorithm is most efficient when it processes compressible data i.e. website content. One more advantage of using LZ4 is that the backup copies of the semi-dedicated accounts which we keep need a lot less space and are generated quicker, which allows us to keep multiple daily backups of all your files and databases.