Green Hosting: Hostgator
Hostgator, one of the world’s leading server providers, is joining the ranks of companies that are choosing the path to a greener pasture by producing and promoting green products.
Most people almost fail to notice the impact of the Information Technology sector on global warming. It has to be noted that a range of 3-4 percent of all energy generated that induce carbon emission around the planet are used in running data processing and storage centers. To illustrate, a single hosting server has the same ecological impact as a 15mpg SUV vehicle. And do we need to count the number of servers needed to run our favorite social network or perhaps our e-mail provider alone?
The IT sector has to do its share in the global response against climate change by trying to reduce carbon emission. Fortunately, Hostgator is doing its social responsibility to provide for us an efficient and green hosting that is aiming at global sustainability. The company ties up with Integrated Ecosystem Market Services to provide us quality green hosting.
Skeptics might be thinking that this is just another marketing ploy from this trusted brand. Well, it is not difficult to understand why some people have to doubt green products such as this one as most brands out there are claiming to be green when in fact, they are not. Other hosting services that are claiming to be energy efficient are merely offsetting their power usage. In the end, the same amount of heat is emitted. What separates Hostgator from the others is the fact that the company is actually using renewable energy to power their servers as well as to cool them. Truth is that for every watt of electricity used to power a server, 1-2 watts are needed to cool them off. Hostgator invested on their source of renewable energy to be able to power and cool off their servers.
It is reported that Hostgator even chose to get windmill energy from Texas—the company’ home state. This is to say that Hostgator participates on the campaign to think globally and to act locally in this noble endeavor.
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