Data Compression in Web Hosting
The cloud web hosting platform where your web hosting account will be generated works by using the revolutionary ZFS file system. The LZ4 compression method which the latter uses is better in numerous aspects, and not only does it compress information better than any compression method that a number of other file systems use, but it's also quicker. The benefits can be significant especially on compressible content such as website files. Even though it may sound irrational, uncompressing data with LZ4 is faster than reading uncompressed info from a hard drive, so the performance of each site hosted on our servers shall be better. The better and faster compression rates also make it possible for us to generate a number of daily backups of the full content in each web hosting account, so in the event you delete anything by mistake, the last backup which we have will not be more than a couple of hours old. This is possible because the backups take a lot less space and their generation is quick enough, to not affect the performance of our servers.
Data Compression in Semi-dedicated Hosting
Your semi-dedicated hosting account will be created on a cloud platform which is run on the leading-edge ZFS file system. The aforementioned uses a compression algorithm named LZ4, which is far better than other algorithms regarding compression ratio and speed. The gain is noticeable particularly when data is being uncompressed and not only is LZ4 quicker than other algorithms, but it is also quicker in uncompressing data than a system is in reading from a hard disk. That is why sites running on a platform which uses LZ4 compression perform faster because the algorithm is most effective when it processes compressible data i.e. website content. Another advantage of using LZ4 is that the backup copies of the semi-dedicated accounts that we keep need less space and they are generated faster, which allows us to store a couple of daily backups of your files and databases.