Data Compression
Discover more details on the great benefits of data compression. Learn how it really works and what data may be compressed.
Data compression is the reduction of the number of bits which need to be saved or transmitted and this particular process is really important in the web hosting field since info located on hard disks is often compressed to take less space. You will find various algorithms for compressing info and they offer different effectiveness based upon the content. A number of them remove only the redundant bits, so no data will be lost, while others erase unnecessary bits, which leads to worse quality once the data is uncompressed. The process employs plenty of processing time, therefore a web hosting server needs to be powerful enough to be able to compress and uncompress data quickly. An example how binary code can be compressed is by "remembering" that there're five consecutive 1s, for example, as an alternative to storing all five 1s.
Data Compression in Semi-dedicated Hosting
The ZFS file system which runs on the cloud platform where your semi-dedicated hosting account will be created uses a powerful compression algorithm called LZ4. It's among the best algorithms out there and definitely the best one when it comes to compressing and uncompressing web content, as its ratio is very high and it'll uncompress data much faster than the same data can be read from a hard drive if it were uncompressed. Thus, using LZ4 will quicken any Internet site that runs on a platform where the algorithm is present. This high performance requires lots of CPU processing time, which is provided by the great number of clusters working together as a part of our platform. In addition to that, LZ4 enables us to generate several backups of your content every day and save them for one month as they'll take a reduced amount of space than standard backups and will be generated much faster without loading the servers.
