The term data compression means decreasing the number of bits of data which has to be saved or transmitted. You can do this with or without losing info, which means that what will be erased in the course of the compression shall be either redundant data or unneeded one. When the data is uncompressed afterwards, in the first case the info and the quality will be identical, while in the second case the quality shall be worse. You can find different compression algorithms which are better for various type of info. Compressing and uncompressing data often takes lots of processing time, which means that the server performing the action must have sufficient resources to be able to process your info quick enough. One simple example how information can be compressed is to store just how many consecutive positions should have 1 and how many should have 0 within the binary code as an alternative to storing the particular 1s and 0s.
Data Compression in Website Hosting
The compression algorithm employed by the ZFS file system which runs on our cloud hosting platform is called LZ4. It can upgrade the performance of any website hosted in a website hosting account on our end since not only does it compress info more effectively than algorithms used by alternative file systems, but also uncompresses data at speeds which are higher than the hard disk drive reading speeds. This is achieved by using a great deal of CPU processing time, which is not a problem for our platform considering the fact that it uses clusters of powerful servers working together. An additional advantage of LZ4 is that it allows us to make backups faster and on lower disk space, so we shall have multiple daily backups of your databases and files and their generation won't affect the performance of the servers. That way, we can always recover all of the content that you may have erased by accident.
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 among the best algorithms out there and definitely the best one when it comes to compressing and uncompressing web content, as its ratio is very high and it'll uncompress data at a higher speed than the same data can be read from a hard disk drive if it were uncompressed. Thus, using LZ4 will boost any site that runs on a platform where this algorithm is enabled. This high performance requires lots of CPU processing time, that is provided by the numerous clusters working together as a part of our platform. What's more, LZ4 makes it possible for us to generate several backups of your content every day and save them for one month as they will take a reduced amount of space than typical backups and will be generated much quicker without loading the servers.