The term data compression identifies lowering the number of bits of data that needs to be saved or transmitted. You can do this with or without the loss of information, so what will be deleted during the compression can be either redundant data or unneeded one. When the data is uncompressed afterwards, in the first case the content and its quality will be identical, while in the second case the quality will be worse. You can find various compression algorithms that are more efficient for various kind of info. Compressing and uncompressing data in most cases takes plenty of processing time, therefore the server executing the action should have plenty of resources to be able to process the info fast 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 inside the binary code instead of storing the actual 1s and 0s.

Data Compression in Hosting

The cloud web hosting platform where your hosting account shall be generated employs the advanced ZFS file system. The LZ4 compression method that the aforementioned uses is greater in many aspects, and not only does it compress information better than any compression method which many other file systems use, but it is also a lot faster. The benefits are significant particularly on compressible content which includes website files. Even though it could sound illogical, uncompressing data with LZ4 is faster than reading uncompressed info from a hard drive, so the performance of each website hosted on our servers shall be upgraded. The better and quicker compression rates also make it possible for us to generate multiple daily backups of the entire content in each and every web hosting account, so in the event you delete anything by accident, the last backup which we have won't be more than a couple of hours old. This can be done as the backups take a lot less space and their generation is fast enough, so as to not affect the performance of our servers.

Data Compression in Semi-dedicated Servers

The semi-dedicated server plans which we provide are created on a powerful cloud platform that runs on the ZFS file system. ZFS works with a compression algorithm called LZ4 that outperforms any other algorithm these days in terms of speed and data compression ratio when it comes to processing web content. This is valid especially when data is uncompressed since LZ4 does that more rapidly than it would be to read uncompressed data from a hard disk and because of this, Internet sites running on a platform where LZ4 is enabled will work at a higher speed. We're able to take advantage of the feature regardless of the fact that it needs quite a large amount of CPU processing time because our platform uses a huge number of powerful servers working together and we never make accounts on a single machine like the majority of companies do. There is one more advantage of using LZ4 - considering the fact that it compresses data really well and does that very quickly, we can also generate multiple daily backups of all accounts without affecting the performance of the servers and keep them for 30 days. In this way, you'll always be able to bring back any content that you delete by mistake.