Web Hosting Talk : Web Hosting Main Forums : Specialty Hosting and Markets : Green Hosting : How do you go 'Green'?

[andrew_t]

The post title says it all pretty much,

How do you go 'Green'?

[gate2vn]

Virtualizing our systems. Replacing the old hardware with the new one for saving power usage.

[Maars]

Buy new servers, particularly the energy efficient ones(Mostly the old ones suck energy lot).

Create Virtual servers in it if required & possible to run for multiple purpose.

Shutdown your Monitor/PC when not going to use for long time.

Go for Candle Light dinner, and call me too.....

And paint everything & everyone GREEN.

Scientifically proved, its good for eyes

[getonlineteam]

I like gate2vn's advice.

[HTTP404]

Carbon Off-set your server and office's energy use

[larry2148]

Virtualizing is probably the biggest thing you can do I think, since it would allow you to combine many servers into one.

[mooseweb]

-Buy a bunch of Renewable Energy Credits
-Virtualize servers
-Replace old hardware with new
-Make sure your office is run on "wind" energy.

It's a long list, but I really do not think it's worth it. I mean great, your helping the environment, but your wallet is going to start hurting very, very fast.

[joe-banana]

or solar energy and please recycle those documents..

I get a lot of papers i can use for printing from work saves me around approx $10 a month of papers..

how much more do those bigger companies use!

[Ryan - HostATree]

Cheapest way is use carbon credits which offset the displacement energy your company uses.

[vpsville]

Virtualizing your servers or renting VPS's will both save money and reduce your energy footprint. A dedicated server wastes a lot of power.

[andrew_t]

Awsome - Thanks everyone for your help.

[racked_solutions]

We've been trying to green for a long time now here are steps we took.

1. Built into our corporate policy a green guide. which included powering down computer monitors when not used. Upgrading all our office equipment to energy efficient hardware. We then virtulized our whole office cutting down the hardware thus increasing efficacy. we also encourage natural light instead of using mains lighting. And today im erecting a small wind turbine

2. Virtulize hosting infrastructure instead of having several servers for main site/support portal back-ups we bought 2 new servers clustered them and now virtulize on them. We also use what we call "part time servers" so for example our backup servers are only ever switched on for duration of a backup

3. Our biggest move so far is to use a green powered datacenter we looked at several but most where very expensive, untill we got a email regarding burstNET now being a green datacenter. so where possible now we will be putting services into BurstNET. and where we cant put server into here we carbon offset by planting trees.

[mark82533]

These guys from WWO should promote XEN virtualization on their T-shirts Xen do really good job here.

[astutiumRob]

firstly, remember the only truly green are those cabbages that believe virtualisation magically reduces power usage - if thats the case then it mainly means you didnt plan it properly in the 1st place ...
and lower power usage itself doesnt mean "green", just lower electricity bills ...

[andrew_t]

Thanks everyone for your replies, I just saw my thread was mentioned in the WHT newsletter