Data compression is the compacting of info by reducing the number of bits that are stored or transmitted. This way, the compressed information takes much less disk space than the initial one, so a lot more content might be stored on identical amount of space. You can find many different compression algorithms that work in different ways and with a lot of them only the redundant bits are deleted, therefore once the data is uncompressed, there's no loss of quality. Others remove excessive bits, but uncompressing the data following that will lead to reduced quality in comparison with the original. Compressing and uncompressing content requires a significant amount of system resources, in particular CPU processing time, so any web hosting platform which employs compression in real time should 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" the number of consecutive 1s or 0s there should be instead of keeping the entire code.

Data Compression in Shared Hosting

The cloud internet hosting platform where your shared hosting account shall be generated uses the outstanding ZFS file system. The LZ4 compression method that the aforementioned employs is better in lots of aspects, and not only does it compress information better than any compression method that a number of other file systems use, but it's also much faster. The gains are significant in particular on compressible content like website files. Although it could sound irrational, uncompressing data with LZ4 is faster than reading uncompressed info from a hard disk, so the performance of every site hosted on our servers will be boosted. The better and faster compression rates also make it possible for us to generate multiple daily backups of the whole content in every single web hosting account, so if you delete something by accident, the last back-up copy which we have won't be more than a few hours old. This is possible as the backups take a lot less space and their generation is fast enough, to not change the performance of our servers.

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 one of the best algorithms out there and definitely the most efficient one when it comes to compressing and uncompressing website content, as its ratio is very high and it can uncompress data at a faster rate than the same data can be read from a hard drive if it were uncompressed. That way, using LZ4 will accelerate any kind of website that runs on a platform where this algorithm is present. The high performance requires plenty of CPU processing time, that is provided by the great number of clusters working together as a part of our platform. What's more, LZ4 allows us to generate several backups of your content every day and keep them for a month as they'll take much less space than standard backups and will be generated considerably faster without loading the servers.