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Lupe · 2 years ago

What about having your web site powered by solar....AISO (http://www.aiso.net) is 100% solar powered, both their servers and data center are powered by onsite solar panels. And they also have a partnership with Co-Op America, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and the U.S. Green Building Council. Plus, they are doing more then just making sure their electricity is green. Their data center and office is green too by using environmentally friendly air conditioners, solar tubes to bring in natural light, a propane powered generator instead of diesel, VMWare virtualization to reduce their server electricity usage, 6 watt energy saving desktop computers for their employees, and soon to be LEED certified as a green data center, the only public one in North America, at least that I have found so far.

Daniel · 2 years ago

Great comment, Lupe, thanks. While I'm definitely happy with Dreamhost, I'm the first to admit that as long as there's competition, there will be better products popping up. Whenever my Dreamhost account comes up for renewal, I do a check to see what the competition is up to - and I'll be looking at AISO when that happens next. I can't say that 'green-ness' is the number one factor for me, but it's a factor.