Romoland, California - (The Hosting News) - July 9, 2007 - Environmentally friendly, solar-powered web hosting company, AISO.Net, was recently chosen by producers to host the Live Earth web site. In addition, the company custom designed a dedicated, reliable solution to power the web site, using energy efficient IBM BladeCenter servers, with Second-Generation AMD Opteron processors.

Live Earth was a 24-hour, 7-continent concert series that occurred on July 7, 2007 to combat climate change. The Live Earth partnership enabled AISO to join Live Earth in inspiring over two billion people worldwide to take simple steps to lead a more environmentally friendly lifestyle.

Phil Nail, Technology Manager for AISO.Net remarked, ”AISO is proud to support Live Earth, a groundbreaking event to support a vital cause. We are doing everything we can do to be totally responsible and being the industry leader in environmental web hosting. We are very excited about Live Earth choosing AISO to host their Web site, showing the world that AISO.Net truly cares about our environment.”

Live Earth has recognized that AISO is the only truly green web hosting company and 100 percent solar powered data center that does not use green energy credits, proving their commitment to be the best, most reliable eco-friendly hosting company in the world. |

Live Earth’s web site is served from IBM BladeCenter servers with AMD Opteron processors. Blade computers - which integrate servers, storage, networking and applications into one system - offer a design point that helps reduce the proliferation of server ”farms,” large IT staffs to manage them and wasted energy resources. Companies like AISO.Net benefit from reduced power, cooling, and management costs by deploying the industry’s leading blade servers from IBM.

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Stop the presses! Web hosting 2.0 is here. The revolutionary technology that web hosting 2.0 entails? Trees, wind power, and renewable energy.

Okay, so it may not be web hosting 2.0 and it may not be ultra exciting from a technological standpoint, but eco-friendly hosting or green web hosting is becoming more and more mainstream.

The fact is that many technology consumers are concerned about the human potential to degrade the environment and the sense that our hundreds of millions of cars and computers are not helping the planet. Rising temperatures may or may not be related to global warming, but the notion that humans in general have had a negative affect on the environment has begun to be absorbed by the web hosting industry.

Several hosting providers have set out to at least balance their part of what hosting does to negatively impact the environment. These hosts use alternative and/or renewable energy to power their datacenters, plant trees for every server sold, and even telecommute to save gas. They are investing a lot of time, money, and other resources into helping the environment.

Some of these hosting companies are huge and others are small. It’s interesting to observe web hosts of all sizes are making a commitment to helping the environment.

According to industry expert Isabel Wang, a lot of companies are simply paying to offset their environmental problems. Dell and Salesforce.com are among the companies that anywhere from $4.75 to $6.40 per ton of CO2 emissions.

So is green hosting a publicity stunt to get environmentally conscious technology consumers to sign up for hosting? It’s hard to tell, but it certainly can’t hurt. Read more of this news »