The term data compression describes decreasing the number of bits of data which has to be stored or transmitted. You can do this with or without losing information, so what will be erased throughout the compression shall be either redundant data or unneeded one. When the data is uncompressed afterwards, in the first case the information and the quality will be identical, while in the second case the quality will be worse. You will find various compression algorithms that are more efficient for different sort of information. Compressing and uncompressing data generally takes lots of processing time, so the server executing the action needs to have adequate resources in order to be able to process your info quick enough. An example how information can be compressed is to store how many consecutive positions should have 1 and how many should have 0 within the binary code as an alternative to storing the particular 1s and 0s.
Data Compression in Shared Hosting
The cloud internet hosting platform where your shared hosting account is generated uses the impressive ZFS file system. The LZ4 compression method which the latter uses is greater in various aspects, and not only does it compress info better than any compression method that other file systems use, but it's also quicker. The benefits may be significant particularly on compressible content which includes website files. Although it could sound irrational, uncompressing data with LZ4 is faster than reading uncompressed data from a hard disk, so the performance of any website hosted on our servers will be upgraded. The better and faster compression rates also make it possible for us to produce a large number of daily backups of the entire content in every single Internet hosting account, so if you delete something by accident, the last back-up copy that we have will not be more than a few hours old. This is possible as the backups take a lot less space and their generation is quick enough, so as to not affect the performance of the servers.
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 is one of the best algorithms out there and certainly the best one when it comes to compressing and uncompressing website content, as its ratio is very high and it can uncompress data at a higher speed than the same data can be read from a hard disk drive if it were uncompressed. This way, using LZ4 will quicken any site that runs on a platform where the algorithm is enabled. The high performance requires plenty 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 allows us to generate several backups of your content every day and save them for a month as they will take a reduced amount of space than regular backups and will be created considerably faster without loading the servers.