I guess that you’ve already read thousands of articles and blog posts about this issue. Nevertheless I still find it important to say something about green hosting. Most other major industries have a game plan when it comes to the environment and why shouldn’t web hosts also have it? It’s an industry that’s constantly on the rise and it affects many peoples life. We should all do what we can to keep our earth healthy.
I think that it’s partially up to the web hosting providers and partially up to the consumers to act when it comes to green hosting. Hosting providers should, of course, already have some kind of a plan when it comes to this. One example of things to do is to have a paper free work place. If they haven’t a plan for the environment it’s up to the consumers to put some pressure on these companies. I think that you would be surprised over how much influence the “little person” has over the big companies. After all, without the consumers the web hosting industry wouldn’t do as well as it’s doing right now. So everybody unite and let’s make the best for this planet’s future!
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2012-05-16
A new tactic is being used by fashion companies trying to stop the online sale of counterfeit versions of their trademark luxury products. Up until about ten years, ago, companies like Chanel and Louis Vuitton w...
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2012-05-10
A recent double release of patches by the PHP Group to remedy a vulnerability in Web servers is symptomatic of a problem that those who are responsible for Web servers know all too well. When a vulnerability is ...
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2012-05-08
Last month, government takedowns of criminal websites revealed a disturbing trend: the use of e-commerce to sell illegal data. We've all used online shopping carts and clicked the checkout button on many commerc...
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2012-05-03
The Cyber Information Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) that was passed by the US House of Representatives last week by a vote of 248 to 168 appears to be the next piece of computer-related legislation that wil...
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2012-04-26
A recent report on the source and types of application hacking attacks upon Web servers highlights the linked growth of two characteristics, sophistication and automation, for the first few months of 2012. Web a...
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2012-04-24
The war over copyright infringement between Big Media and Internet Service Providers (ISPs) is not confined solely (of course) to the United States and Europe. Recently, a court battle was won by iiNet Limited, ...
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2012-04-20
Federal authorities, attempting to trace back three threatening emails that were sent over the last few months to Pennsylvania reporters about bombs supposedly planted at the University of Pittsburgh, found a we...
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2012-04-17
Anyone who played the game of Hot Potato as a child will instantly understand the current situation of the fees for servers involved in the Megaupload case. Last January, the popular file-sharing web site was se...
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2012-04-12
Attacks on web servers by hackers is one of those events most feared by web hosting providers. Besides being categorized by the damage done, these events can also be classified by the type of technique used in t...
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2012-04-03
Several trends have started to coalesce recently into a pattern that augurs well for the growth of cloud computing as a service that can be sold to customers who are already purchasing web hosting services. Clou...
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Commented by: Stephen Duus, 18 June, 2008
Is there some kind of standard coming up regarding green hositng? It's hard to know what to look for...
Commented by: Nikkole, 5 July, 2008
Thanks for encouraging individuals to get involved. Companies have a HUGE role to play, whatever sector they are in. Many of them will only do so if they are pressured to do so or if they believe it will influence a consumer's choice to purchase from them or not. We VOTE more than once every election cycle. We vote EVERY DAY for the type of future we wish to create through our choices and where we spend our money.
Commented by: Daniel, The Hosting Blog, 21 October, 2008
I think that Green web hosting is just a load of crap. What web hosting company uses paper anyway? That is already out of the equation. Yes, maybe you could setup your servers to run in power save mode, but this will only mean you will have to buy more servers in the long run. More servers using less power...instead of less servers using slightly more power. What about all the energy that goes into making the hardware for these servers?