Take Your Green Website to the Next Level
Are you a green blogger? Do you have a website? Well just how green is your website? Many of us think websites are a greener method of communicating our ideas over tradition print media, but websites are still pretty hefty consumers of resources. Besides the materials used to build all of the servers and electronic devices, website hosting is a major consumer of electricity. Any respectable website hosting provider will house their servers in high security, climate controlled facilities adding to the energy needs to keep our sites up and running.
Well HostGator, my long term hosting provider has recently decided to “green up” their act. They have purchased enough renewable energy credits from local wind farms to not only cover the consumption of their data centers, but an additional 30% has been purchased.
Of course there is debate over how well these credit and offset systems work, but the sad truth is it would be extreamly difficult for any company to generate its own electricty. This give us a fair chance to support renewable energy sources, and prove the demand for new renewable facilities.
So how green is your website? If your srever isn’t being powered by wind I highly recomend that you check out HostGator. Their plans are extreamly affordable, and in the many years I’ve been a customer I’ve never had a major support problem. The small issues the
inevitabley come up have been solved quickly by an excellant support staff.
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Cool article. Will definately look into for my site.
I think its very easy to forget how much energy is used by computers/servers and such but still an important issue
Thanks for setting such a good example.
Thanks Ben & Tomato Lady.
Ben, Check out the services HostGator offers for transferring existing site from other hosts to their own.
This is excellent information. Though I do not have my own site since my blog is freely hosted, but this information is nice to keep and to pass on to those who have their own domain.
@betchai: Thanks a ton! Maybe you’ll use it one day too if you break out onto your own domain.
Great article we all need to be aware of the chain leading to all end products…… Good post!
Just found your site and wanted to say hello. Very nice! I’d heard about hostgator doing something green with their hosting options, so I will check it out. I’ll add you to my fav’s and will keep an eye on your content.
Thanks,
Jeff
Nice post. Looks like wind power is really starting to get some serious consideration in Australia now.
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