Data compression is the compacting of info by decreasing the number of bits that are stored or transmitted. Thus, the compressed info will take much less disk space than the initial one, so extra content might be stored on identical amount of space. There are many different compression algorithms that function in different ways and with many of them only the redundant bits are removed, which means that once the information is uncompressed, there is no loss of quality. Others remove unneeded bits, but uncompressing the data following that will lead to lower quality compared to the original. Compressing and uncompressing content takes a large amount of system resources, in particular CPU processing time, so each and every web hosting platform which uses compression in real time should have enough power to support that feature. An example how information can be compressed is to replace a binary code such as 111111 with 6x1 i.e. "remembering" the number of sequential 1s or 0s there should be instead of keeping the actual code.

Data Compression in Hosting

The cloud hosting platform where your hosting account will be created works by using the innovative ZFS file system. The LZ4 compression method that the latter uses is superior in many aspects, and not only does it compress info better than any compression method that similar file systems use, but it's also faster. The gains are significant especially on compressible content such as website files. Although it could sound unreasonable, uncompressing data with LZ4 is quicker than reading uncompressed info from a hard drive, so the performance of any website hosted on our servers shall be enhanced. The better and faster compression rates also allow us to make multiple daily backups of the whole content in each and every Internet hosting account, so if you delete anything by accident, the last backup that we have won't be more than several hours old. This is possible as the backups take significantly less space and their generation is fast enough, to not affect the performance of our servers.