Data Compression in Shared Web Hosting
The ZFS file system that runs on our cloud web hosting platform uses a compression algorithm identified as LZ4. The latter is significantly faster and better than any other algorithm you will find, especially for compressing and uncompressing non-binary data i.e. internet content. LZ4 even uncompresses data quicker than it is read from a hard disk, which improves the performance of Internet sites hosted on ZFS-based platforms. Due to the fact that the algorithm compresses data really well and it does that quickly, we're able to generate several backup copies of all the content stored in the shared web hosting accounts on our servers daily. Both your content and its backups will take reduced space and since both ZFS and LZ4 work extremely fast, the backup generation will not change the performance of the web servers where your content will be kept.
Data Compression in Semi-dedicated Servers
The ZFS file system which runs on the cloud platform where your semi-dedicated server account will be created uses a powerful compression algorithm called LZ4. It's one of the best algorithms out there and certainly the most efficient one when it comes to compressing and uncompressing web content, as its ratio is very high and it will uncompress data faster than the same data can be read from a hard drive if it were uncompressed. This way, using LZ4 will speed up every site that runs on a platform where this algorithm is present. This high performance requires lots of CPU processing time, that's provided by the great number of clusters working together as part of our platform. In addition to that, LZ4 enables us to generate several backup copies of your content every day and save them for a month as they'll take a reduced amount of space than regular backups and will be generated much quicker without loading the servers.