Data compression is the decrease of the number of bits which should be saved or transmitted and this particular process is rather important in the internet hosting field as data kept on hard drives is generally compressed to take less space. There're many different algorithms for compressing info and they offer different efficiency based on the content. Some of them remove just the redundant bits, so that no data can be lost, while others erase unnecessary bits, which leads to worse quality once the particular data is uncompressed. The process needs a lot of processing time, so an internet hosting server needs to be powerful enough to be able to compress and uncompress data instantly. An illustration how binary code could be compressed is by "remembering" that there are five consecutive 1s, for example, in contrast to storing all five 1s.

Data Compression in Shared Website Hosting

The compression algorithm used by the ZFS file system which runs on our cloud internet hosting platform is called LZ4. It can supercharge the performance of any Internet site hosted in a shared website hosting account with us since not only does it compress info significantly better than algorithms used by other file systems, but it uncompresses data at speeds that are higher than the hard disk reading speeds. This can be done by using a lot of CPU processing time, which is not a problem for our platform for the reason that it uses clusters of powerful servers working together. A further advantage of LZ4 is that it enables us to generate backup copies more rapidly and on less disk space, so we will have multiple daily backups of your databases and files and their generation will not affect the performance of the servers. In this way, we could always restore the content that you may have removed by accident.