Data compression is the reduction of the number of bits that need to be saved or transmitted and the process is rather important in the internet hosting field due to the fact that data located on hard disk drives is typically compressed to take less space. You will find various algorithms for compressing info and they have different efficiency based upon the content. A number of them remove only the redundant bits, so that no data can be lost, while others erase unneeded bits, which leads to worse quality once the data is uncompressed. This method needs plenty of processing time, so an internet hosting server should be powerful enough so as to be able to compress and uncompress data right away. An instance how binary code may be compressed is by "remembering" that there're five consecutive 1s, for example, in contrast to storing all five 1s.

Data Compression in Cloud Hosting

The ZFS file system which is run on our cloud hosting platform employs a compression algorithm called LZ4. The aforementioned is a lot faster and better than any other algorithm out there, particularly for compressing and uncompressing non-binary data i.e. web content. LZ4 even uncompresses data quicker than it is read from a hard drive, which improves the performance of sites hosted on ZFS-based platforms. Because the algorithm compresses data very well and it does that quickly, we can generate several backups of all the content stored in the cloud hosting accounts on our servers on a daily basis. Both your content and its backups will require reduced space and since both ZFS and LZ4 work very fast, the backup generation will not affect the performance of the web hosting servers where your content will be kept.