Data compression is the reduction of the number of bits which have to be stored or transmitted and this process is quite important in the internet hosting field due to the fact that data filed on hard drives is usually compressed to take less space. There're different algorithms for compressing info and they provide different efficiency depending on the content. Some of them remove just the redundant bits, so that no data can be lost, while others erase unneeded bits, which results in worse quality once the particular data is uncompressed. This method uses a lot of processing time, therefore a hosting server needs to be powerful enough in order to be able to compress and uncompress data quickly. An illustration how binary code could be compressed is by "remembering" that there are five sequential 1s, for example, rather than storing all five 1s.

Data Compression in Cloud Website Hosting

The cloud web hosting platform where your cloud website hosting account shall be made works by using the impressive ZFS file system. The LZ4 compression method that the latter employs is better in many aspects, and not only does it compress data better than any compression method that a number of other file systems use, but it's also much quicker. The gains are significant in particular on compressible content like website files. Although it could sound illogical, uncompressing data with LZ4 is faster than reading uncompressed data from a hard drive, so the performance of every website hosted on our servers shall be improved. The better and quicker compression rates also allow us to produce a number of daily backups of the full content in each hosting account, so if you delete anything by mistake, the last back-up copy that we have won't be more than a few hours old. This can be done as the backups take significantly less space and their generation is fast enough, to not influence the performance of our servers.