Data compression is the decrease of the number of bits that should be stored or transmitted and this particular process is very important in the web hosting field as info kept on hard disks is often compressed in order to take less space. You can find various algorithms for compressing information and they provide different efficiency depending on the content. Many of them remove only the redundant bits, so no data will be lost, while others erase unnecessary bits, which leads to worse quality when your data is uncompressed. This process requires plenty of processing time, so a web hosting server needs to be powerful enough in order to be able to compress and uncompress data quickly. One example how binary code could be compressed is by "remembering" that there're five consecutive 1s, for example, in contrast to storing all five 1s.

Data Compression in Cloud Hosting

The cloud web hosting platform where your cloud hosting account shall be generated uses the revolutionary ZFS file system. The LZ4 compression method that the latter uses is better in various aspects, and not only does it compress info better than any compression method that many other file systems use, but it's also much faster. The benefits are significant especially on compressible content which includes website files. Despite the fact that it may sound irrational, uncompressing data with LZ4 is quicker than reading uncompressed info from a hard drive, so the performance of each site hosted on our servers will be better. The better and quicker compression rates also allow us to generate numerous daily backups of the entire content in each hosting account, so should you delete anything by mistake, the last backup that we have won't be more than a few hours old. This can be done as the backups take a lot less space and their generation is quick enough, to not change the performance of the servers.