The term data compression means decreasing the number of bits of data which has to be stored or transmitted. This can be achieved with or without losing info, so what will be removed throughout the compression will be either redundant data or unneeded one. When the data is uncompressed subsequently, in the first case the information and the quality will be identical, while in the second case the quality will be worse. You will find various compression algorithms which are more efficient for different type of info. Compressing and uncompressing data often takes plenty of processing time, therefore the server executing the action needs to have enough resources to be able to process the data quick enough. One simple example how information can be compressed is to store how many consecutive positions should have 1 and just how many should have 0 within the binary code as an alternative to storing the particular 1s and 0s.

Data Compression in Cloud Hosting

The cloud hosting platform where your cloud hosting account shall be created employs the advanced ZFS file system. The LZ4 compression method that the latter employs is greater in numerous aspects, and not only does it compress information better than any compression method that some other file systems use, but it is also considerably faster. The benefits can be significant in particular on compressible content which includes website files. Despite the fact that it may sound irrational, uncompressing data with LZ4 is faster than reading uncompressed data from a hard disk, so the performance of each and every website hosted on our servers will be upgraded. The better and quicker compression rates also make it possible for us to generate multiple daily backups of the full content in each and every hosting account, so in the event you delete something by accident, the last backup that we have will not be more than a couple of hours old. This can be done because the backups take considerably less space and their generation is quick enough, to not influence the performance of our servers.