The term data compression identifies lowering the number of bits of data which has to be stored or transmitted. You can do this with or without the loss of info, which means that what will be deleted in the course of the compression will be either redundant data or unneeded one. When the data is uncompressed later on, in the first case the data and the quality will be the same, while in the second case the quality will be worse. You will find various compression algorithms which are more effective for different kind of data. Compressing and uncompressing data normally takes lots of processing time, which means that the server executing the action must have adequate resources to be able to process your info fast enough. One simple 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 as an alternative to storing the particular 1s and 0s.
Data Compression in Hosting
The compression algorithm used by the ZFS file system that runs on our cloud hosting platform is called LZ4. It can supercharge the performance of any website hosted in a hosting account on our end as not only does it compress info much better than algorithms employed by various file systems, but it uncompresses data at speeds that are higher than the hard disk reading speeds. This is achieved by using a lot of CPU processing time, which is not a problem for our platform since it uses clusters of powerful servers working together. A further advantage of LZ4 is that it enables us to make backups more rapidly and on lower disk space, so we will 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 restore any content that you could have removed by accident.
Data Compression in Semi-dedicated Servers
In case you host your websites in a semi-dedicated server account with our company, 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 Internet hosting platform. What distinguishes LZ4 from all the other algorithms out there is that it has a higher compression ratio and it is way quicker, in particular with regard to uncompressing website content. It does that even quicker than uncompressed data can be read from a hard disk drive, so your Internet sites will perform better. The higher speed comes at the expense of using lots of CPU processing time, that is not a problem for our platform as it consists of a lot of clusters working together. In addition to the better performance, you will also have multiple daily backups at your disposal, so you will be able to recover any deleted content with a couple of clicks. The backup copies are available for a whole month and we can afford to store them as they take a lot less space than ordinary backups.