Green Ethics

In an ideal world, we would live in a place where the carbon emissions put out by web servers don’t harm the environment, and also have an increase in energy efficiency.   Very few people realize how much the web hosting industry has an impact on the environment while others are take up the cause to clean up the environment.  It seems that many companies are taking up the cause to reduce the carbon footprint like never before such as recycling materials and planting new trees.

Many people realize the value in protecting our earth’s resources but do not realize that going green
also applies to the energies used by computers and web hosting companies.  Imagine the traditional web operation that used the components for web hosting.  Such components as computer servers, internet connections, room environmental lighting, electrical power, fans, and controls.  Each component expends energy and the larger the operation, the more energy consumed.    With more energy consumed, more emissions are produced and released into the environment.  These carbon emissions adversely affect the environment and cause damage.

From a recent study, did you know that a web hosting company of 3,500 web servers produced 632 KG of CO2 per year needlessly wasting energy and contributing in excessive CO2 emissions?  Each web server on the average needlessly used 1000 KW of electricity in turn, produced in excess of 632 KG of CO2 into the atmosphere. An average web server can consume as much electricity as 30,000 households. It’s hard to believe that hosting a web site could do so much damage to the earth.

To see the impact, it is incredible to see how we affect the environment. For example, your average PC produces a tonne, your car produces 5 Tonnes and your home produces 6 ½ Tonnes of CO2 per year.  This means that on the average, each person contributes in excess of 12 Tonnes of CO2 every year.  This is why we have our beliefs in Green Hosting.

As an EnviroGreen Hosting customer, your website will be hosting on one of the reliable “Green” Dell Servers.  These servers produce 20% less CO2 than the average server.  For other 80%, we support a tree planting project.  Enviro Green Hosting is a carbon neutral project and your website will not have any damaging affects on the environment.

The number of websites is growing every minute and there is no signs of stopping.  There’s no better time than now to act and do everything we can to minimize the harmful effects.  Just bear in mind that by setting up your site with Enviro Green Hosting, you are contributing to the efforts of protecting our planet.

Start today by supporting 'Go Green' for a stronger and healthier planet.

Reference: http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/news/index.cfm?newsid=103005