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Oct

to Green or not to Green?

   Posted by: wkossen   in green IT

Slow? Yes this site is slow. Why? Well it’s running on a slow server. A low energyconsumption, slow server. Yes, A green server. 7 Watts isn’t that much, so it’s very green.

or is it…

Let’s see.

- in total, 7 watts isn’t that much for a server, so it’s green

- but if you look at the number of visitors per watt, hmmm, not so green at all

- This means I need to get more hits, more visitors

- that would mean however that the site might get even slower

- or maybe go down alltogether… that’s not very green, rather it’s black…

So what is it? Green, or not green?

Cheers

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im thinking of replacing my current server, an old converted tower pc. currently 552MB of ram with a 1.2Ghz P4 processor. It sucks about 90-330W depending on load and i get around 120 uniqe visitors a day with maybe a max of 500-1000 page hits. The http://www.very-pc.co.ukcompany specialise in energy efficient computers and I am thinking of buying one of their green PC's which has only a 38W load and is more than twice as fast as my current server having 1GB of ram and a AMD dual core 2.5Ghz processor. So going green for me is pretty good, not only do I save money on electricity (and to be honest thats more important to people than saving the planet) but I get better performance per Watt of energy burnt.

December 12th, 2008 at 12:42
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I couldn’t agree more. Good luck setting up the new server!

December 12th, 2008 at 15:08

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