Data Compression
Know more info on the many benefits of data compression. Understand how it really works along with what data can be compressed.
Data compression is the compacting of data by lowering the number of bits which are stored or transmitted. Thus, the compressed info requires considerably less disk space than the initial one, so more content can be stored on the same amount of space. There are many different compression algorithms that work in different ways and with many of them only the redundant bits are deleted, therefore once the info is uncompressed, there is no decrease in quality. Others remove excessive bits, but uncompressing the data later will result in reduced quality compared to the original. Compressing and uncompressing content takes a large amount of system resources, particularly CPU processing time, therefore any hosting platform which uses compression in real time should have sufficient power to support this attribute. An example how data can be compressed is to substitute a binary code such as 111111 with 6x1 i.e. "remembering" the number of consecutive 1s or 0s there should be instead of keeping the whole code.
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Data Compression in Cloud Hosting
The compression algorithm employed by the ZFS file system that runs on our cloud hosting platform is named LZ4. It can enhance the performance of any site hosted in a
cloud hosting account on our end as not only does it compress info more efficiently than algorithms used by various file systems, but also uncompresses data at speeds which are higher than the hard drive reading speeds. This is achieved by using a lot of CPU processing time, that is not a problem for our platform owing to the fact that it uses clusters of powerful servers working together. One more advantage of LZ4 is that it enables us to make backup copies quicker and on lower disk space, so we will have several daily backups of your databases and files and their generation won't affect the performance of the servers. This way, we can always recover any kind of content that you may have removed by mistake.
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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's one of 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 faster than the same data can be read from a hard disk drive if it were uncompressed. This way, using LZ4 will speed up any kind of site that runs on a platform where the algorithm is present. This high performance requires a lot of CPU processing time, that's provided by the multitude of clusters working together as part of our platform. In addition, LZ4 makes it possible for us to generate several backups of your content every day and save them for one month as they'll take a smaller amount of space than regular backups and will be generated much more quickly without loading the servers.