Sustainable Internet aims to facilitate the sharing of information on carbon neutral & eco friendly web hosting and related topics with the goal of creating a more green, sustainable internet. They noticed that we offset our energy usage with Carbon Credits and we want to thank them for mentioning us.
Agency3 operates our servers in intelligent clusters, which makes us fairly efficient with our infrastructure and power usage. Still, internet operations need electricity, and a majority of that power is generated from coal-burning power plants. Agency3, in partnership with Native Energy, is countering our environmental impact by offsetting the power we use from fossil fuels with renewable energy credits. Our goals are to make our hosting operation completely carbon neutral and to invest in projects that bring more clean energy into the power grid.
With Native Energy, you can help finance and build new clean and renewable energy projects that help create sustainable economic benefits for Native Americans, Alaska Native villages and other local communities, and that help America’s family farmers compete with agribusiness. These projects will displace electricity from fossil fuels and reduce other greenhouse gas emissions on your behalf, making up for the CO2 emissions you can’t avoid.
We know this is not a perfect solution, but it does help us offset much of the energy we use every day and we are pretty proud of it.
Martha Stewart recently announced that her blog is moving from Typepad to Wordpress. We develop a lot of sites with Wordpress and it is great to see such a high visibility site being powered by the platform we love and recommend every day.
Visit: The Martha Blog : Blog upgrade news!
One a related note, Rhea from the The Gemini Web was one of the first people to comment on Martha’s post about the transition. Rhea is a client and a phenomenal blogger and it is great to bump into her in the Blogosphere.
We are often asked, “what is web hosting?”. The best way to explain the concept it to compare it to a real world situation. Picture a web hosting company as the owners of a office building. The owner of the office building invested a lot of money hiring architects, contractors, engineers, etc. to build a great building. Now all the offices in it are empty and the owner is going to rent them to individual businesses that can’t afford (or who simply don’t want) their own building. A hosting company invests a lot of money to set up high-speed connections and a full-fledged data center that will house the files that make up your website.
As a small business owner, you can rent this office space on a monthly or annual basis. The space starts empty and it will be your responsibility to buy furniture and decorate the space and to advertise your business so that people visit your new offices. When you set up your new hosting account it will also be empty and it will be up to you to design your own website (or hire a web designer to build one for you), and to advertise it to the world.
The responsibility of the office building owner is to maintain the building so that your business can prosper in it. As a website owner, you will rent server space on the web to house your website and offer your products or services to the world.
In short, web hosting provides an online home for your website.
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