BTW: In my opinion, anyone who purports to provide hosting (green or otherwise) that includes 300GB traffic per month for $8 are clearly overselling their services since it’s impossible to wholesale-purchase that amount of actual traffic (at whatever ratio you calculate it) and then on-sell at a profit. They rely on the fact that 99.9999% of users hosting business websites will only use 1-2GB per month (max).

This often factors into what is called the “contention ratio” and crudely means the number of sites and bandwidth hosted from each server. Anything over 100 sites per server (each with a max of 5-10GB per month traffic) usually means overselling and eventually reliability issues.

At GreenServe.com.au, we use our own servers to host our own sites too, so that gives us an extra incentive to provide top quality hosting.

Hope to see you at our site sometime. GreenServe.com.au (Carbon Neutral Australian website hosting).

the buffer these hosting providers need to have to cover the possibility that more than this % of clients uses their service to the full extent means that there is a substantial amount of partially deployed hardware in data centres across the planet

the solution is to sell people what they need, as opposed to ‘selling’ something that you hope they will never use

We all need to help.

I couldn’t understand some parts of this article, but it sounds interesting…

Ive recently been researching website hosting services which profess to be green, using renewable energy to power their hosting services or offsetting their carbon emissions. Here’s the results of my research….