The term data compression identifies decreasing the number of bits of info which should be stored or transmitted. You can do this with or without losing info, which means that what will be deleted in the course of the compression shall be either redundant data or unnecessary one. When the data is uncompressed subsequently, in the first case the information and its quality will be identical, while in the second case the quality shall be worse. You will find various compression algorithms which are more efficient for different sort of info. Compressing and uncompressing data generally takes plenty of processing time, which means that the server executing the action should have sufficient resources in order 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 just how many should have 0 in the binary code instead of storing the particular 1s and 0s.
Data Compression in Shared Hosting
The cloud web hosting platform where your shared hosting account will be created works by using the innovative ZFS file system. The LZ4 compression method which the latter uses is superior in numerous aspects, and not only does it compress information better than any compression method that many other file systems use, but it is also faster. The gains will be significant particularly on compressible content like website files. Even though it could sound illogical, uncompressing data with LZ4 is quicker than reading uncompressed info from a hard drive, so the performance of any website hosted on our servers shall be enhanced. The better and quicker compression rates also make it possible for us to generate a large number of daily backups of the full content in each and every Internet hosting account, so in the event you delete anything by accident, the last backup that we have won't be more than several hours old. This is possible as the backups take much less space and their generation is fast enough, to not affect the performance of our servers.
Data Compression in Semi-dedicated Servers
In case you host your Internet sites in a semi-dedicated server account from our company, you'll be able to experience the advantages of LZ4 - the powerful compression algorithm employed by the ZFS file system that's behind our advanced cloud web hosting platform. What separates LZ4 from all other algorithms out there is that it has a higher compression ratio and it is much faster, particularly when it comes to uncompressing website content. It does that even quicker than uncompressed info can be read from a hard disk drive, so your sites will perform better. The higher speed comes at the expense of using a considerable amount of CPU processing time, that's not an issue for our platform because it consists of a lot of clusters working together. In combination with the improved performance, you'll have multiple daily backups at your disposal, so you will be able to recover any deleted content with a few clicks. The backups are available for a whole month and we can afford to store them because they take a lot less space than ordinary backups.