Data compression is the compacting of data by decreasing the number of bits which are stored or transmitted. Thus, the compressed information will need much less disk space than the initial one, so additional content could be stored using the same amount of space. You'll find various compression algorithms that work in different ways and with a lot of them only the redundant bits are erased, so once the info is uncompressed, there's no decrease in quality. Others delete unnecessary bits, but uncompressing the data following that will lead to lower quality in comparison with the original. Compressing and uncompressing content requires a significant amount of system resources, and in particular CPU processing time, therefore each and every Internet hosting platform that uses compression in real time should have sufficient power to support this feature. An example how info can be compressed is to substitute a binary code such as 111111 with 6x1 i.e. "remembering" what number of sequential 1s or 0s there should be instead of storing the whole code.
Data Compression in Website Hosting
The compression algorithm which we work with on the cloud internet hosting platform where your new website hosting account will be created is named LZ4 and it is applied by the exceptional ZFS file system which powers the platform. The algorithm is greater than the ones other file systems use because its compression ratio is a lot higher and it processes data a lot quicker. The speed is most noticeable when content is being uncompressed as this happens quicker than info can be read from a hdd. Therefore, LZ4 improves the performance of each and every site hosted on a server that uses this particular algorithm. We use LZ4 in an additional way - its speed and compression ratio allow us to produce multiple daily backup copies of the entire content of all accounts and keep them for one month. Not only do our backups take less space, but in addition their generation won't slow the servers down like it can often happen with other file systems.
Data Compression in Semi-dedicated Servers
Your semi-dedicated server account will be created on a cloud platform that runs on the leading-edge ZFS file system. The aforementioned uses a compression algorithm named LZ4, which is far better than various other algorithms with regard to compression ratio and speed. The gain is apparent particularly when data is being uncompressed and not only is LZ4 quicker than other algorithms, but it is also faster in uncompressing data than a system is in reading from a hard disk. This is why Internet sites running on a platform which uses LZ4 compression perform faster since the algorithm is most effective when it processes compressible data i.e. website content. Another advantage of using LZ4 is that the backups of the semi-dedicated accounts that we keep take significantly less space and are generated faster, which enables us to store several daily backups of all your files and databases.