Data Compression in Shared Hosting
The ZFS file system that operates on our cloud web hosting platform employs a compression algorithm called LZ4. The latter is substantially faster and better than any other algorithm you'll find, particularly for compressing and uncompressing non-binary data i.e. web content. LZ4 even uncompresses data faster than it is read from a hard drive, which improves the performance of websites hosted on ZFS-based platforms. Since the algorithm compresses data very well and it does that quickly, we're able to generate several backup copies of all the content stored in the shared hosting accounts on our servers daily. Both your content and its backups will take less space and since both ZFS and LZ4 work extremely fast, the backup generation will not affect the performance of the web hosting servers where your content will be stored.
Data Compression in Semi-dedicated Hosting
The semi-dedicated hosting plans which we provide are created on a powerful cloud hosting platform that runs on the ZFS file system. ZFS uses a compression algorithm known as LZ4 that outperforms any other algorithm on the market in terms of speed and data compression ratio when it comes to processing website content. This is valid especially when data is uncompressed since LZ4 does that much faster than it would be to read uncompressed data from a hard disk and as a result, websites running on a platform where LZ4 is present will work faster. We can take full advantage of this feature despite of the fact that it needs quite a great deal of CPU processing time because our platform uses a huge number of powerful servers working together and we do not make accounts on just a single machine like the majority of companies do. There is one more reward of using LZ4 - considering that it compresses data very well and does that speedily, we can also make several daily backups of all accounts without affecting the performance of the servers and keep them for a month. By doing this, you'll always be able to restore any content that you delete by mistake.