No Comments// Posted in Business by Wytze on 01.20.09.

Right before the year ended I reported we purchased a new web server in combination with a carbon dioxide free hosting plan. Today we were pleasantly surprised by a certificate from the International Tree Foundation, that notified us that tree’s had been planted in our name to compensate for carbon dioxide produced by our webservers.

Because webservers are constantly running and making calculations they are sucking a high amount of power, and creating a lot of heat which then needs to be cooled in order to maintain stability. Having a ‘green’ server changes nothing about this process, but ‘green’ labeled servers are often equipped with more energy efficient components and in our case we have an alternative cooling solution in place.

I guess the bottom line is; no matter what industry you’re in, you too have a role in the global effort to reduce levels of carbon dioxide emitted into the atmosphere..

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