Sep 26, 2010
What is the common point between these wind generators and my website ?
Well, the formers power the latter.
A word about Green Hosting
Green Hosting, also known as Eco-friendly hosting, is to the internet what organic agriculture is to the food industry : sustainable and ecological.
A green hosting company runs web servers with electricity produced from a renewable source, for example sun or wind.
As estimated by this article on Wikipedia :
The total electric bill to operate web servers and related infrastructure equipment was $2.7 billion in the United States and $7.2 billion worldwide. If energy consumption related to web hosting keeps raising at the current rate by 2020, the industry will be more polluting than the airline industry.
Obviously, choosing a green host is not only a matter of good conscience, it’s necessary to preserve the environmental resources.