Data compression is the lowering of the number of bits that have to be saved or transmitted and this particular process is quite important in the web hosting field since info kept on hard disk drives is usually compressed so as to take less space. There're many different algorithms for compressing data and they offer different efficiency based upon the content. Some of them remove just the redundant bits, so that no data can be lost, while others remove unnecessary bits, which leads to worse quality once the particular data is uncompressed. The process employs a lot of processing time, therefore a hosting server should be powerful enough so as to be able to compress and uncompress data immediately. An instance how binary code may 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 Web Hosting

The compression algorithm used by the ZFS file system which runs on our cloud web hosting platform is called LZ4. It can improve the performance of any website hosted in a cloud web hosting account with us because not only does it compress data more effectively than algorithms used by various other file systems, but also uncompresses data at speeds which are higher than the hard drive reading speeds. This can be done by using a lot of CPU processing time, which is not a problem for our platform considering that it uses clusters of powerful servers working together. One more advantage of LZ4 is that it allows us to create backups quicker and on less disk space, so we can have several daily backups of your files and databases and their generation will not affect the performance of the servers. In this way, we can always recover any content that you may have erased by accident.