Green Hosting and Wind Powered Hosting

The Internet is growing at a phenomenal rate. In just 5 years time, some experts predict that the pollution caused by the hosting industry can be as much as the airline industry. In other words, the hosting industry is not eco-friendly. It is causing damage and harm to our environment.

Everyday, in our daily lives, we log on to the Internet without an idea of what happens in the backend. Every website that we visit is hosted on a web server. A web server is a computer that sits inside a data center. Data centers provide the power and the infrastructure to keep these servers online 24/7. Sophisticated equipment are deployed to ensure that power is constantly being supplied to the servers, even if there is a power failure. Such fail-safe features are essential in a data center because many servers are used to host enterprise applications and sites, which are mission critical.

But the question is, what is providing the power behind these data centers? The Internet is evolving at an amazing rate, and some people are starting to be alarmed by the immense amount of power that the data centers consumed. These data centers are powered by traditional power sources - oil and gas. The problem with using oil and gas as a power source is that such energy sources are finite, and they cause severe damage to the environment in the long run.

Therefore, many major data centers are turning to renewable sources of energy such as Wind and Solar power. In fact, some hosting companies even go as far as calling themselves green companies. That is tantamount to saying that everything that they do about their business is going to be eco-friendly. Being eco-friendly doesn't stop at just using renewable energy sources. It has to start from the "inside" on the organization. It doesn't make sense to claim that the company is being environmentally friendly, but in the company, the organization is really wasting tons of paper each year.

Many different measures have been put in place to align business goals with the environment. For instance, telecommuting can amount to emitting harmful gases into the environment. So staff are given special permission to work from home or use shared office spaces so that telecommuting is cut down to the minimum. A paper management system is also put in place to ensure that there is no unnecessary wastage of paper. Paper wastage can speed up the decline of trees, which is never good for the environment since trees can help in protecting the environment.

As a consumer, you can help by supporting green hosting companies. These are companies that take the extra effort to migrate their shared and reseller servers into green data centers. The features and pricing of your hosting plans are never affected due to the green movement. Everything happens at the backend. But if you support green hosting companies, you would have acquired peace of mind, knowing that you are playing your part when it comes to protecting the environment.
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17 Reasons Why You Should Always Carry a Book With You

 

1. As someone who used to spend a lot of time waiting for real estate clients to show up – I know that clients / appointments / people in general are often late. If you’ve got a book with you, the time can be wisely used.

2. Books can be heavy and if necessary, a large book can be used as a weapon of self protection.

3. Doctor’s can’t tell time. Ok – so I‘m sure they can, but they’re not usually too fussed with sticking to it when you have an appointment. While away those hours reading a good book.

4. Waiting room magazines are usually from at least 5 years ago do you really want to see pictures from Fergie’s wedding (the Duchess of York variety, not the Black eyed Peas’ Fergie) again? Read a book instead. And also - do you really want to be fondling something so many sick people have held and spluttered over?

5. Books can save your life. Baghdad, Iraq - A US soldier serving in iraq believes his Bible saved his life after it stopped a sniper's bullet. 22-year-old Army Private First Class Brendan Schweigart had his Bible tucked in a pocket beneath his bullet proof shield when he was shot with a high powered rifle while on a mission in Iraq. The bullet missed his vital organs, came out his chest, and lodged in his Bible before it could do more damage.

6. Having a book on public transport makes you less of a target for the chatty grandma type or that guy who just can’t seem to observe personal space

7. Kids play sport, sometimes not well, read a book instead. Also consider using a calming book as the antidote to being one of those crazy sidelines parents!

8. We all have an unreliable friend. Rather than roster him or her off the social calendar. Tell them your lunch date is 1.30 (when it’s really 1.45) and take a book just in case.

9. Books are ideal when you’re stuck in the car with boring company. Discard this tip if like me, the motion makes you a little queasy (books + vomit = a little hard to read).

10. Your computer crashes, read 5 pages, there’s power outage, read 15 more.

11. Handbags are so big now anyway – you may as well have a book (or an entire library in there). Guys, get a satchel or a man-bag, I think they’re hot.

12. I remember when a trip to the hairdresser took half an hour, these days with the shampoo, head massage, colour, foils, trim, layering, complimentary choccies and beer, blow dry, straighten I’m out for half a day. Read a book instead of listening to the gossip.

13. Speaker Pat Mesiti’s (www.mesiti.com) on board. He offers $1,000 to anyone who catches him without a book in his bag. Apparently his teenage daughter asks each day.

14. Books make you look intellectual (glasses, a pencil in your hair and a good solid pocket protector also add to the geek-chic).

15. I love a good airline magazine, but they tell people to take them home, people take them home and then I rarely get to read one! Take a book as a back up.

16. If you don't know what the person you're mean to meet looks like (this happens to me way too often) arrive 20 minutes early, read your book and then it’s up to them to find you.

17. And finally – if even Paris Hilton can do it, surely you can too!

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Kirsty Dunphey is one of Australia’s most publicised young entrepreneurs and is the founder of www.reallysold.com - the ultimate tool to help real estate agents write amazing advertisements. The youngest ever winner of the Australian Telstra Young Business Woman of the Year award, Kirsty started her first business at 15, her own real estate agency at 21, was a self-made millionaire at 23 and a self-made multi-millionaire at 25. For more information on Kirsty or either of her books – Advance to Go, Collect $1 Million and Retired at 27, If I can do it anyone can, or to sign up to her weekly newsletter head to: www.kirstydunphey.com