Data compression is the decrease of the number of bits which have to be saved or transmitted and the process is quite important in the internet hosting field because info stored on hard disks is usually compressed so as to take less space. There are many different algorithms for compressing information and they have different effectiveness based upon the content. Some of them remove only 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. This method uses plenty of processing time, therefore a web hosting server has to be powerful enough so as to be able to compress and uncompress data right away. An instance how binary code may be compressed is by "remembering" that there're five sequential 1s, for example, rather than storing all five 1s.

Data Compression in Cloud Hosting

The compression algorithm used by the ZFS file system which runs on our cloud web hosting platform is named LZ4. It can boost the performance of any Internet site hosted in a cloud hosting account with us as not only does it compress info more efficiently than algorithms employed by alternative file systems, but it uncompresses data at speeds that are higher than the HDD reading speeds. This can be done by using a great deal of CPU processing time, which is not a problem for our platform due to the fact that it uses clusters of powerful servers working together. A further advantage of LZ4 is that it enables us to make backups more speedily and on less disk space, so we shall have multiple daily backups of your files and databases and their generation will not affect the performance of the servers. That way, we could always restore the content that you may have erased by accident.