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09-15-2010, 12:56 PM #51New Member
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There's tons of greenwashing out there in my opinion. Off hand, I can only think of one company that I actually believe is doing solar-powered hosting and that's AISO.net
Buying carbon footprint offset credits is, in my opinion, absolutely not green whatsoever. It's not helping even the slightest bit. The credits are traded wildly to the point of oblivion and have been investigated many times and proven to be fraudulent.
I would be very interested to hear from anyone who has actually been to and seen the setup of a solar-powered or wind-turbine powered hosting company with their own two eyes, and can offer comments on their experiences with the hosting quality provided by them.
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09-21-2010, 01:23 PM #52Web Hosting Guru
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09-22-2010, 04:12 AM #53Junior Guru
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10-12-2010, 11:36 AM #54New Member
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The best way to promote that your company is green is via PR releases and articles.
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10-13-2010, 08:50 PM #55Temporarily Suspended
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First thing I have in mind for the word Green hosting would be the implementation of VPS servers. Does it make sense?
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11-04-2010, 08:46 PM #56Newbie
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I think being 'green' is the next big thing.
Mainly for business they would like to promote how 'green' they are so if the host is, thats a plus for anyone.
Daniel
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11-04-2010, 10:01 PM #57Aspiring Evangelist
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Greenwashing is indeed rampant.
Much of the movement is misdirected. Well intentioned however.
90%+ of places selling green services have purchased offset credits. In simple terms - they pay another company some money to do something to offset their pollution - like planting trees, adding wind power into grid, etc.
Almost no one could run a colo facility on green power. Unless we tapped stored geothermal or natural gas/methane pocket on property. Those are not renewable enough in my opinion to be green. Wind and solar are too variable and too expensive to run a datacenter.
So if you want to be green in this category do something different and do it yourself. Plant trees for every so many dollars. Replace lighting in your facility. Invest in those reductions as you net income.
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01-18-2011, 09:48 AM #58Web Hosting Master
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One thing I see overlooked a lot in the green hosting is blade servers. We started replacing standalone servers with blade type servers and power consumption drops dramatically. I am surprised to not see more doing that. As Atlas posted, pulling in the fresh air helps a lot with being more efficient on cooling.
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01-22-2011, 10:36 AM #59Newbie
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It is true that nobody bothers about green services. But, weightage is given to green services above others and it makes a great difference.
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02-08-2011, 01:26 PM #60Disabled
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some best feature for Green Web Hosting
1.try to make your server less consumable of electicity if you are providing green web hosting.
2. Try to add some best valuable offers for non-profit organizations.
3. And also best offfers for small companies
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03-09-2011, 04:48 AM #61Junior Guru Wannabe
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03-09-2011, 05:01 AM #62Disabled
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Green Web Hosting use alternative / renewable energy, plant trees, recycling waste and purchase RECs to power their datacenters. as General Webhosting would be identical to your typical house, has city grid power, diesel generator etc.
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05-15-2011, 02:06 AM #63Newbie
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