The term data compression identifies decreasing the number of bits of information which should be saved or transmitted. You can do this with or without losing information, so what will be removed in the course of the compression shall be either redundant data or unneeded one. When the data is uncompressed later on, in the first case the info and the quality shall be identical, whereas in the second case the quality will be worse. You will find various compression algorithms that are better for different sort of information. Compressing and uncompressing data frequently takes plenty of processing time, so the server performing the action must have sufficient resources to be able to process the data quick enough. One simple example how information can be compressed is to store how many sequential positions should have 1 and just how many should have 0 in the binary code rather than storing the particular 1s and 0s.

Data Compression in Cloud Hosting

The ZFS file system that runs on our cloud hosting platform uses a compression algorithm named LZ4. The aforementioned is a lot faster and better than any other algorithm out there, especially for compressing and uncompressing non-binary data i.e. internet content. LZ4 even uncompresses data quicker than it is read from a hard drive, which improves the performance of sites hosted on ZFS-based platforms. Because the algorithm compresses data really well and it does that quickly, we can generate several backups of all the content stored in the cloud hosting accounts on our servers every day. Both your content and its backups will need reduced space and since both ZFS and LZ4 work very quickly, the backup generation will not affect the performance of the hosting 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 definitely the most efficient one when it comes to compressing and uncompressing web content, as its ratio is very high and it'll uncompress data faster than the same data can be read from a hard drive if it were uncompressed. Thus, using LZ4 will quicken any Internet site that runs on a platform where the algorithm is present. This high performance requires a lot of CPU processing time, that's provided by the large number of clusters working together as part of our platform. Furthermore, LZ4 allows us to generate several backup copies of your content every day and save them for one month as they'll take a reduced amount of space than standard backups and will be created much faster without loading the servers.