Data compression is the compacting of info by lowering the number of bits which are stored or transmitted. Consequently, the compressed information will require considerably less disk space than the initial one, so much more content might be stored using the same amount of space. You'll find different compression algorithms which function in different ways and with many of them only the redundant bits are deleted, which means that once the info is uncompressed, there's no decrease in quality. Others delete unnecessary bits, but uncompressing the data later will result in lower quality compared to the original. Compressing and uncompressing content takes a huge amount of system resources, in particular CPU processing time, so each and every hosting platform that employs compression in real time must have ample power to support that attribute. An example how info can be compressed is to replace a binary code such as 111111 with 6x1 i.e. "remembering" how many sequential 1s or 0s there should be instead of storing the actual code.

Data Compression in Cloud Hosting

The compression algorithm that we employ on the cloud web hosting platform where your new cloud hosting account will be created is named LZ4 and it is used by the leading-edge ZFS file system that powers the platform. The algorithm is greater than the ones other file systems use as its compression ratio is higher and it processes data considerably quicker. The speed is most noticeable when content is being uncompressed since this happens faster than information can be read from a hdd. Consequently, LZ4 improves the performance of any site located on a server that uses the algorithm. We take advantage of LZ4 in one more way - its speed and compression ratio let us generate multiple daily backup copies of the entire content of all accounts and store them for thirty days. Not only do these backups take less space, but also their generation won't slow the servers down like it often happens with many other file systems.