Green web hosting – How to start a green hosting company

Environment concern is not a fad that would fade any more. A lot of consumers are demanding that their hosting company are socially responsible if not they will vote with their wallets and move their hosting elsewhere. Data centres are notoriously power hungry. Servers tends to consume a lot of electricity because they are running day and night. Temperature in the data centre needs to be kept at a cool constant temperature so its no surprise that data centres are said to consume 4% of the electricity used in the world.

Web hosting companies and data centres that has switched to powering their operation in ecofriendly manner tends to use some of the following me methods: [Read more]