Data compression is the lowering of the number of bits that have to be stored or transmitted and this process is quite important in the web hosting field due to the fact that data filed on hard drives is generally compressed so as to take less space. You'll find different algorithms for compressing data and they offer different efficiency based on the content. A lot of them remove only the redundant bits, so no data will be lost, while others remove unneeded bits, which leads to worse quality once the particular data is uncompressed. This process employs a lot of processing time, which means that a web hosting server should be powerful enough in order to be able to compress and uncompress data quickly. An instance how binary code can be compressed is by "remembering" that there're five sequential 1s, for example, as an alternative to storing all five 1s.

Data Compression in Website Hosting

The cloud web hosting platform where your website hosting account will be created uses the revolutionary ZFS file system. The LZ4 compression method that the aforementioned employs is superior in lots of aspects, and not only does it compress data better than any compression method which some other file systems use, but it is also quicker. The gains may be significant in particular on compressible content like website files. Despite the fact that it may sound irrational, uncompressing data with LZ4 is faster than reading uncompressed data from a hard disk drive, so the performance of each and every site hosted on our servers shall be improved. The better and quicker compression rates also allow us to produce a number of daily backups of the whole content in every single hosting account, so if you delete anything by accident, the last back-up copy which we have won't be more than a couple of hours old. This is possible as the backups take much less space and their generation is quick enough, to not change the performance of our servers.