Data compression is the compacting of information by decreasing the number of bits which are stored or transmitted. Thus, the compressed info requires substantially less disk space than the initial one, so a lot more content could be stored on the same amount of space. There're different compression algorithms that work in different ways and with several of them only the redundant bits are erased, which means that once the info is uncompressed, there's no decrease in quality. Others delete excessive bits, but uncompressing the data later will lead to reduced quality in comparison with the original. Compressing and uncompressing content takes a huge amount of system resources, especially CPU processing time, therefore any Internet hosting platform that employs compression in real time must have adequate power to support that attribute. An example how data can be compressed is to replace a binary code such as 111111 with 6x1 i.e. "remembering" what number of sequential 1s or 0s there should be instead of keeping the whole code.

Data Compression in Shared Hosting

The cloud web hosting platform where your shared hosting account will be made works by using the advanced ZFS file system. The LZ4 compression method which the aforementioned employs is greater in numerous aspects, and not only does it compress information better than any compression method which similar file systems use, but it's also considerably faster. The benefits can be significant in particular on compressible content like website files. Even though it could sound unreasonable, uncompressing data with LZ4 is faster than reading uncompressed data from a hard drive, so the performance of each and every website hosted on our servers will be upgraded. The better and quicker compression rates also allow us to make multiple daily backups of the full content in each hosting account, so should you delete something by accident, the last back-up copy which we have will not be more than a couple of hours old. This is possible as the backups take a lot less space and their generation is fast enough, so as to not affect the performance of the servers.

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 one of the best algorithms out there and certainly the best one when it comes to compressing and uncompressing website content, as its ratio is very high and it can uncompress data at a faster rate than the same data can be read from a hard disk drive if it were uncompressed. That way, using LZ4 will quicken every Internet site that runs on a platform where this algorithm is enabled. This high performance requires lots of CPU processing time, that's provided by the multitude of clusters working together as a part of our platform. In addition to that, LZ4 enables us to generate several backup copies of your content every day and keep them for one month as they will take a smaller amount of space than regular backups and will be generated considerably quicker without loading the servers.