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Green hosting:
Good companies like dreamhost, Thinkhost, AISO are in the lead.
But are others following the lead? What do you think?

[JFSG]

HostGator is one of them.

[whservices]

There are a number of companies moving that direction. Some are using it for marketing purposes, others are on a mission to save the world.
Saving the world is a good thing. I'm on the bandwagon. I don't even use plastic bags at the stores anymore, shop at Fresh and Easy so I can park in the hybrid parking spaces, and work from home as often as possible.

[JFSG]

How do the servers go 'green'?

[amex]

Many of these companies seem to be just on a marketing campaign. I think it's nice and all to use servers that use less resources but some boast about the practice, exaggerating it to a lot more than it really is.

[gate2vn]

How do the servers go 'green'?
We are replacing the old servers with the new ones, and virtualizing to save the power usage.

[JFSG]

We are replacing the old servers with the new ones, and virtualizing to save the power usage.
Doesn't sounds like making a big difference..

[gate2vn]

In fact, it's a big difference. The first replacing that we did 2 years ago is replacing 20 P4 servers by 5 Opteron one. Power decreased, meanwhile performance increases. Now, we are going to virtualize our systems with new quad-cores 45nm servers, and I am seeing another big saving. Do it, then you can see yourself

[whservices]

How do the servers go 'green'?
You can certainly do a number of things to be 'green'...
1) Buy Green Tags. (Or e-Tags, as they are called.) This just means that the energy that you use is created by a green source (wind, solar, hydro) and delivered to the power grid you're connected to. (Even though you aren't using it necessarily.)
2) Use more energy friendly servers. You can purchase servers that for example, have 2 servers within a single case, sharing a common power supply... In addition, using CPUs with 'speed-stepping' technology, so that CPUs that aren't being used are dropped to lower clock speeds. (AMD has mastered this technology well.) Speed-stepping will reduce the amount of heat and voltage used during off-peak times.
3) Virtualization - you can more effectively use your server hardware. In this way, you can potentially reduce the number of servers consuming energy.
4) Running an efficient datacenter. It's amazing what a little silicone can do for a datacenter. Not to mention how your AC ducts is laid out within the datacenter. You can greatly reduce your carbon footprint and energy consumed.
5) And of course, obviously ... windmills on the datacenter roof, solar panels, etc. I doubt you will find many datacenters with that though.
And there are many other ways...

[JFSG]

5) And of course, obviously ... windmills on the datacenter roof, solar panels, etc. I doubt you will find many datacenters with that though.
I wonder which datacenter will invest in placing them..

[whservices]

I wonder which datacenter will invest in placing them..
I don't foresee many placing them.
Considering that a single windmill can cost $40k+ each...
In addition to the space required to place them, and getting the city to approve it.
They say it's a 5 year ROI for windmills.
Solar panels, that would be a better option. But costly as well.

Wow... Great tips on going green.. Never thought that a data center could be 100% solar powered..

[GWS-Natal1a]

Green hosting:
Good companies like dreamhost, Thinkhost, AISO are in the lead.
But are others following the lead? What do you think?
You can also consider:
sustainablewebsites.com
sustainablehosting.com
greenhosting.org
hostpapa.com
www.acornhost.com
UHB (Webhostingbuzz.com)
www.ecosky.com
www.pair.com
Hope you can choose the one best

[mdrussell]

Green hosting:
Good companies like dreamhost, Thinkhost, AISO are in the lead.
But are others following the lead? What do you think?
Dreamhost sure isn't in the lead. They just jumped on the bandwagon and did it as a marketing ploy after a few others set the standard.

[Klentelaris]

This is not just green it is also profitable.Even buying windmills and solar cost money after certain time investement start to return,and then you can grab that money which usualy would go for electricty bill.