Data compression is the compacting of data by decreasing the number of bits that are stored or transmitted. This way, the compressed info will require much less disk space than the original one, so a lot more content can be stored using the same amount of space. You'll find various compression algorithms which work in different ways and with a number of them only the redundant bits are removed, which means that once the info is uncompressed, there's no decrease in quality. Others remove excessive bits, but uncompressing the data subsequently will lead to lower quality compared to the original. Compressing and uncompressing content requires a huge amount of system resources, and in particular CPU processing time, so each and every Internet hosting platform which uses compression in real time should have adequate 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 whole code.

Data Compression in Web Hosting

The cloud internet hosting platform where your web hosting account will be created uses the advanced ZFS file system. The LZ4 compression method which the latter employs is greater in various aspects, and not only does it compress data better than any compression method which some other file systems use, but it is also considerably faster. The benefits are significant in particular on compressible content like website files. Even though it could sound illogical, uncompressing data with LZ4 is faster than reading uncompressed data from a hard disk drive, so the performance of each site hosted on our servers will be upgraded. The better and quicker compression rates also make it possible for us to produce a number of daily backups of the entire content in every single web hosting account, so should you delete anything by accident, the last back-up copy which we have won't be more than a few hours old. This is possible because the backups take considerably less space and their generation is fast enough, to not change the performance of our servers.