Environment-friendly hosting options

[tselem]

I would like to see environment-friendly hosting options. Carbon-neutrality would be nice, but the use of solar, wind, or related power sources would be great.

[esl]

You would need to ask The Planet to implement your ideas. HostGator does not own the data center.

[zevin]

Purchasing carbon offsets would be an option. Visit carbonfund dot org.

I do this for my office. Makes me feel better.

Getting The Planet to change would be difficult.

[tselem]

Originally Posted by esl

You would need to ask The Planet to implement your ideas. HostGator does not own the data center.

True, but there are other data centers. HostGator need not use only The Planet. It could establish an account with another center to offer this feature to their customers.

Originally Posted by zevin

Purchasing carbon offsets would be an option.

Indeed, I have considered this. It would be nice to see this built into one or all the plans offered.

Don't know if you have seen the recent update but as of Today we became a "Greener" Hosting Company

http://www.hostgator.com/green-web-hosting.shtml

[tobiaslw]

Don't know if you have seen the recent update but as of Today we became a "Greener" Hosting Company

I saw that - great news

May I ask how though? Is it with the carbon offset? Or is it more than that?

[REVOLUTIONS inc.]

Time to institute Free DC Energy!!
Hey Brent, or any gator that can point this out to him, i hold the secret to harnessing the planets natural electromagnetic forces to create Free DC Energy, the worlds biggest kept secret and what all this war, oil, religion is all about.....keeping it a secret.

But i no longer agree with the powers that be and i STILL want to tell the whole world how to do it.
Anyone interested in being among the first humans in history to really make a difference?

t's all about filing down raw magnitite into simple goemetric shapes and putting them together in just the right confugureation to create a self-sustaining, never ending energy sourse known as Free DC Energy.
1,000,000 times stronger than solar energy.

How does it work?
Look at the world around you and how things in nature work with the planet and then start thinking "outside the box" and it'll come to you.

[skeetr]

Found a typo in the very first paragraph. The word minimize is spelled "miminize"

Sorry....thats as far as I got reading the article....maybe I will read it later.

Will let you know if I find any other typos

[zevin]

I read this yesterday on the Hostgator blog! This is good news...

HostGator is using renewable energy to both power and cool their servers

HostGator has invested in Green-e certified Renewable Energy Credits (RECs).

HostGator has purchased RECs for 130% of the electricity used to power and cool its shared and reseller servers.

HostGator has invested entirely in wind RECs generated in their home state of Texas.

Now, I challenge all dedicated server owners to go green. I would if I had one. However I have been purchasing offsets for my hosting usage and will continue even with Hostgators new announcement. We can not do enough fast enough.

[whiteheat]

Originally Posted by GatorMTucker

Don't know if you have seen the recent update but as of Today we became a "Greener" Hosting Company

http://www.hostgator.com/green-web-hosting.shtml

Congratulations - it's a very good move. But...

There is no obligation on energy suppliers to use the cash from RECs to fund new, additional renewable energy capacity. Indeed it could just be used boost company profits. I'd be very interested to know the policy of this particular supplier; I note that 3Degrees mention this 'additionality' in connection with their 3 overseas case studies, but not in relation to the 4 in the US...

Despite my reservations on RECs, it's still very good to see that you are working to make a difference in this important area!

[mbaya]

Are there any plans to include dedicated servers in the green hosting as well? If not can you at least provide a metric explaining how much energy my server consumes per year so I can buy offsets elsewhere (or perhaps let me pay this to hostgator and thus become a 'green dedicated server' client?