The term data compression describes decreasing the number of bits of data that has to be saved or transmitted. You can do this with or without the loss of data, so what will be deleted during the compression will be either redundant data or unneeded one. When the data is uncompressed subsequently, in the first case the content and the quality shall be identical, while in the second case the quality shall be worse. There're different compression algorithms which are more effective for different type of data. Compressing and uncompressing data often takes lots of processing time, so the server performing the action should have sufficient resources in order to be able to process your data fast enough. An example how information can be compressed is to store just how many consecutive positions should have 1 and just how many should have 0 in the binary code as an alternative to storing the actual 1s and 0s.

Data Compression in Shared Hosting

The cloud hosting platform where your shared hosting account will be created uses the reliable ZFS file system. The LZ4 compression method which the latter employs is superior in a number of aspects, and not only does it compress data better than any compression method that some other file systems use, but it is also much faster. The benefits will be significant particularly on compressible content like website files. While it may sound unreasonable, uncompressing data with LZ4 is quicker than reading uncompressed info from a hard disk drive, so the performance of every website hosted on our servers shall be upgraded. The better and faster compression rates also allow us to make a large number of daily backups of the full content in each hosting account, so should you delete something by accident, the last back-up copy that we have won't be more than several hours old. This is possible because the backups take much less space and their generation is fast enough, to not affect the performance of the servers.

Data Compression in Semi-dedicated Hosting

The ZFS file system that runs on the cloud platform where your semi-dedicated hosting account will be created uses a powerful compression algorithm called LZ4. It is among the best algorithms out there and certainly 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 drive if it were uncompressed. Thus, using LZ4 will boost any kind of website that runs on a platform where this algorithm is enabled. The high performance requires plenty of CPU processing time, which is provided by the large number of clusters working together as a part of our platform. Furthermore, LZ4 allows us to generate several backup copies of your content every day and save them for a month as they will take a smaller amount of space than typical backups and will be created much quicker without loading the servers.