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05 5th, 2009| 
Have you ever heard of green hosting? This is a phrase synonymous also to “green web hostingâ€, which means web host service providers who do their part in saving the environment. This is manifested in so many business practices and office solutions undertaken by web host service companies. This includes planting programs (planting trees) undertaken by company personnel, recycling office waste, running data centers on alternative energy sources (wind, solar, geothermal energy), utilizing bio-fuel and going paperless (as much as possible). Green web hosting service providers also encourage alternative work transportation and buy carbon credits. Buying carbon credits means helping fund plans and projects that seek to reduce, if not eliminate, the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. These companies should also be purchasing renewable energy credits to power their data centers. This is now becoming a popular trend in promoting consumer companies to eco-aware clientele. This is definitely good news!
On the other hand, you can engage the services of a web host company and choose between a shared server or a dedicated server to host your website. If you are a little bit constrained, budget-wise, you should settle for a shared server, at least until after you build up more capital to switch to a dedicated server. Evidently, a dedicated server would provide more services than its shared counterpart. In a shared server, you have to share your provider with several (or hundreds) of client websites thereby partitioning the total hard drive space and bandwidth provision among the many users of the same server. You should hence deal with some slowdown in server response time, which in a way may adversely affect your website’s internet traffic. As we know, web surfers do not really have that virtue of patience when it comes to internet access, they want results in so short a time.