Data Compression
Understand more to do with the benefits of data compression. Learn the way it functions and just what data can be compressed.
Data compression is the compacting of info by decreasing the number of bits that are stored or transmitted. In this way, the compressed information will take much less disk space than the original one, so more content might be stored on identical amount of space. You'll find many different compression algorithms that work in different ways and with a number of them just the redundant bits are removed, so once the data is uncompressed, there is no loss of quality. Others erase excessive bits, but uncompressing the data afterwards will result in lower quality in comparison with the original. Compressing and uncompressing content takes a huge amount of system resources, and in particular CPU processing time, so each and every web hosting platform that uses compression in real time should have ample power to support that attribute. An example how info can be compressed is to substitute a binary code such as 111111 with 6x1 i.e. "remembering" what number of consecutive 1s or 0s there should be instead of storing the whole code.
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Data Compression in Shared Web Hosting
The compression algorithm which we employ on the cloud internet hosting platform where your new
shared web hosting account shall be created is named LZ4 and it is applied by the advanced ZFS file system which powers the platform. The algorithm is much better than the ones other file systems work with as its compression ratio is much higher and it processes data considerably quicker. The speed is most noticeable when content is being uncompressed since this happens more quickly than data can be read from a hard disk drive. For that reason, LZ4 improves the performance of each website stored on a server that uses this algorithm. We take advantage of LZ4 in an additional way - its speed and compression ratio let us generate several daily backup copies of the full content of all accounts and keep them for one month. Not only do our backup copies take less space, but in addition their generation doesn't slow the servers down like it often happens with some other file systems.
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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 definitely the best one when it comes to compressing and uncompressing website content, as its ratio is very high and it'll uncompress data faster than the same data can be read from a hard disk drive if it were uncompressed. This way, using LZ4 will accelerate any kind of site that runs on a platform where the algorithm is present. The high performance requires a lot of CPU processing time, that is provided by the multitude of clusters working together as a part of our platform. Furthermore, 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 regular backups and will be generated considerably faster without loading the servers.