The term data compression means decreasing the number of bits of information which needs to be stored or transmitted. This can be achieved with or without losing info, so what will be removed at the time of the compression can be either redundant data or unneeded one. When the data is uncompressed afterwards, in the first case the data and the quality shall be the same, while in the second case the quality shall be worse. You'll find different compression algorithms which are better for different type of data. Compressing and uncompressing data generally takes plenty of processing time, so the server performing the action should have plenty of resources to be able to process the info fast enough. An example how information can be compressed is to store how many sequential positions should have 1 and how many should have 0 inside the binary code rather than storing the actual 1s and 0s.

Data Compression in Shared Hosting

The cloud web hosting platform where your shared hosting account is created works by using the impressive ZFS file system. The LZ4 compression method that the aforementioned uses is greater in various aspects, and not only does it compress information better than any compression method that a variety of other file systems use, but it is also faster. The gains can be significant especially on compressible content like website files. Despite the fact that it could sound irrational, uncompressing data with LZ4 is faster than reading uncompressed info from a hard disk, so the performance of each and every website hosted on our servers will be better. The better and faster compression rates also allow us to make numerous daily backups of the entire content in each and every web hosting account, so should you delete something by mistake, the last backup that we have won't be more than a couple of hours old. This is possible because the backups take much less space and their generation is fast enough, to not change the performance of the servers.

Data Compression in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you host your sites in a semi-dedicated hosting account from our firm, you will 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 distinguishes LZ4 from all other algorithms out there is that it has a better compression ratio and it is considerably faster, especially with regard to uncompressing web content. It does that even quicker than uncompressed data can be read from a hard drive, so your websites will perform faster. The higher speed is at the expense of using a great deal of CPU processing time, that's not a problem for our platform because it consists of a large number of clusters working together. In combination with the improved performance, you will also have multiple daily backup copies at your disposal, so you can restore any deleted content with just a couple of clicks. The backup copies are available for a whole month and we can afford to keep them as they take considerably less space than ordinary backups.