The term data compression describes lowering the number of bits of info that needs to be saved or transmitted. This can be achieved with or without losing information, which means that what will be deleted during the compression shall be either redundant data or unnecessary one. When the data is uncompressed subsequently, in the first case the content and the quality shall be the same, while in the second case the quality will be worse. You'll find different compression algorithms that are more effective for various kind of info. Compressing and uncompressing data frequently takes lots of processing time, so the server carrying out the action needs to have sufficient resources in order to be able to process your info quick enough. A simple example how information can be compressed is to store just how many sequential positions should have 1 and how many should have 0 within the binary code as an alternative to storing the actual 1s and 0s.
Data Compression in Shared Hosting
The compression algorithm which we work with on the cloud internet hosting platform where your new shared hosting account will be created is known as LZ4 and it's applied by the exceptional ZFS file system that powers the platform. The algorithm is superior to the ones other file systems work with as its compression ratio is higher and it processes data a lot faster. The speed is most noticeable when content is being uncompressed as this happens at a faster rate than information can be read from a hard drive. Because of this, LZ4 improves the performance of each Internet site hosted on a server that uses this algorithm. We take full advantage of LZ4 in one more way - its speed and compression ratio make it possible for us to make a couple of daily backups of the entire content of all accounts and keep them for thirty days. Not only do these backup copies take less space, but in addition their generation does not slow the servers down like it often happens with other file systems.
Data Compression in Semi-dedicated Hosting
In case you host your sites in a semi-dedicated hosting account from 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 hosting platform. What separates LZ4 from all other algorithms out there is that it has a better compression ratio and it is much quicker, particularly with regard to uncompressing web content. It does that even quicker than uncompressed info can be read from a hard drive, so your Internet sites will perform better. The higher speed is at the expense of using a great deal of CPU processing time, that's not an issue for our platform because it consists of multiple clusters working together. Together with the superior performance, you'll have multiple daily backup copies at your disposal, so you'll be able to recover any deleted content with a couple of clicks. The backup copies are available for an entire month and we can afford to keep them as they take considerably less space than traditional backups.