Data compression is the reduction of the number of bits which should be saved or transmitted and this process is really important in the web hosting field since data located on hard disk drives is generally compressed to take less space. There are various algorithms for compressing data and they offer different efficiency depending on the content. A number of them remove only the redundant bits, so no data can be lost, while others delete unneeded bits, which results in worse quality when your data is uncompressed. The process requires a lot of processing time, therefore an internet hosting server has 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 are five sequential 1s, for example, as an alternative to storing all five 1s.

Data Compression in Cloud Hosting

The cloud internet hosting platform where your cloud hosting account is made works by using the reliable ZFS file system. The LZ4 compression method that the aforementioned employs is superior in various aspects, and not only does it compress information better than any compression method which other file systems use, but it's also a lot quicker. The gains can be significant especially on compressible content like website files. Even though it may sound illogical, uncompressing data with LZ4 is quicker than reading uncompressed data from a hard disk drive, so the performance of any website hosted on our servers shall be better. The better and quicker compression rates also make it possible for us to generate multiple daily backups of the whole content in each hosting account, so if you delete something by mistake, the last back-up copy which 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, so as to not influence the performance of the servers.