Data Compression
Learn more to do with the advantages of data compression. Find out how it functions as well as what data may be compressed.
Data compression is the lowering of the number of bits which have to be saved or transmitted and this particular process is rather important in the internet hosting field since info kept on hard disk drives is usually compressed so as to take less space. There are different algorithms for compressing information and they offer different efficiency depending on the content. A lot of them remove just the redundant bits, so that no data can be lost, while others erase unnecessary bits, which results in worse quality once your data is uncompressed. The method consumes a lot of processing time, so an internet hosting server needs to be powerful enough in order to be able to compress and uncompress data in real time. An illustration how binary code could be compressed is by "remembering" that there're five sequential 1s, for example, rather than storing all five 1s.
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Data Compression in Cloud Website Hosting
The ZFS file system which is run on our cloud web hosting platform employs a compression algorithm called LZ4. The latter is a lot faster and better than every other algorithm you will find, particularly for compressing and uncompressing non-binary data i.e. internet content. LZ4 even uncompresses data faster than it is read from a hard disk, which improves the overall performance of websites hosted on ZFS-based platforms. Because the algorithm compresses data very well and it does that quickly, we can generate several backup copies of all the content kept in the
cloud website hosting accounts on our servers every day. Both your content and its backups will require less space and since both ZFS and LZ4 work extremely fast, the backup generation will not change the performance of the web servers where your content will be kept.
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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's among the best algorithms out there and certainly the best one when it comes to compressing and uncompressing web content, as its ratio is very high and it'll uncompress data at a higher speed than the same data can be read from a hard disk drive if it were uncompressed. That way, using LZ4 will boost every Internet site that runs on a platform where the algorithm is enabled. The high performance requires lots of CPU processing time, which is provided by the numerous clusters working together as a part of our platform. In addition, LZ4 makes it possible for us to generate several backup copies of your content every day and save them for a month as they'll take a reduced amount of space than typical backups and will be created considerably quicker without loading the servers.