Data compression is the compacting of info by decreasing the number of bits that are stored or transmitted. This way, the compressed information will require considerably less disk space than the initial one, so a lot more content could be stored using the same amount of space. You'll find various compression algorithms that work in different ways and with many of them only the redundant bits are removed, so once the data is uncompressed, there's no decrease in quality. Others delete excessive bits, but uncompressing the data later will result in reduced quality compared to the original. Compressing and uncompressing content requires a huge amount of system resources, particularly CPU processing time, so every Internet hosting platform that uses compression in real time needs to have ample power to support that attribute. An example how information 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 whole code.

Data Compression in Cloud Web Hosting

The cloud internet hosting platform where your cloud web hosting account is generated works by using the impressive ZFS file system. The LZ4 compression method that the aforementioned employs is better in lots of aspects, and not only does it compress info better than any compression method that a variety of other file systems use, but it is also considerably faster. The benefits may be significant in particular on compressible content like website files. Although it may sound illogical, uncompressing data with LZ4 is quicker than reading uncompressed info from a hard drive, so the performance of each website hosted on our servers will be better. The better and quicker compression rates also make it possible for us to produce a number of daily backups of the whole content in each Internet hosting account, so should you delete anything by mistake, the last back-up copy which we have won't be more than several hours old. This can be done because the backups take a lot less space and their generation is fast enough, to not influence the performance of our servers.