The term data compression means reducing the number of bits of information which should be stored or transmitted. You can do this with or without losing information, which means that what will be erased at the time of the compression will be either redundant data or unnecessary one. When the data is uncompressed later on, in the first case the data and its quality will be identical, while in the second case the quality shall be worse. You will find different compression algorithms which are more effective for various kind of info. Compressing and uncompressing data generally takes a lot of processing time, so the server executing the action needs to have plenty of resources in order to be able to process the info quick enough. An example how information can be compressed is to store how many consecutive positions should have 1 and how many should have 0 inside the binary code instead of storing the actual 1s and 0s.
Data Compression in Website Hosting
The cloud web hosting platform where your website hosting account will be made employs the advanced ZFS file system. The LZ4 compression method which the aforementioned employs is greater in many aspects, and not only does it compress info better than any compression method that a number of other file systems use, but it's also considerably quicker. The benefits may be significant particularly on compressible content like website files. While it could sound unreasonable, uncompressing data with LZ4 is quicker than reading uncompressed data from a hard disk, so the performance of each website hosted on our servers will be boosted. The better and faster compression rates also make it possible for us to generate multiple daily backups of the whole content in every single web hosting account, so should you delete anything by mistake, the last back-up copy that we have will not be more than several hours old. This is possible because the backups take considerably less space and their generation is quick enough, so as to not affect the performance of our servers.
Data Compression in Semi-dedicated Hosting
If you host your sites in a semi-dedicated hosting account with our company, you'll be able to experience the advantages of LZ4 - the powerful compression algorithm employed by the ZFS file system which is behind our advanced cloud hosting platform. What differentiates LZ4 from all of the other algorithms out there is that it has an improved compression ratio and it is considerably faster, particularly with regard to uncompressing web content. It does that even quicker than uncompressed data can be read from a hard disk drive, so your sites will perform faster. The higher speed is at the expense of using a lot of CPU processing time, which is not a problem for our platform as it consists of multiple clusters working together. Besides the better performance, you'll also have multiple daily backup copies at your disposal, so you'll be able to restore any deleted content with just a few clicks. The backups are available for an entire month and we can afford to store them since they take a lot less space than traditional backups.