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Greenpeace Urges Facebook to “Unfriend Coal” in its New Ad

April 4th, 2011 No comments

According to a blog entry by the Guardian, Greenpeace, the environmental firm has broadcasted a new advertisement targeting Facebook, a social media enterprise, to quit the use of coal power in its data centers by April 22nd Earth Day. This ad will be aired in California Wednesday, where Greenpeace aims to target 2000 workers in the Silicon Valley.

However, it is extremely implausible for Facebook to alter its source of power by the deadline or even at all. Greenpeace is expected to gain popularity due to its campaign to urge a popular social media website with over 500 million users all over the globe.

Casey Harrell, Senior Campaign Specialist at San Francisco office of Greenpeace reported to the Guardian, “We love Facebook. Its employees are young and share a lot of our values; they want the world to be a better place. But Greenpeace is saying to Facebook employees that you’re part of a lot of social revolutions, but you need to help join the energy revolution.”

Greenpeace has also published a research that singly pointed the coal sourced power used at the Oregon data centers of Facebook. Data Center Knowledge commented, “Greenpeace is calling data center operators to a standard the environmental group itself doesn’t fully meet” as part of the servers of Greenpeace are located in areas that use coal and nuclear power.

According to Greenpeace, the campaign targets Facebook as it has “revolutionized the way the world communicates, so it can revolutionize the IT sector’s current reliance on coal. Facebook’s reputation for innovation means that wherever it goes, other IT companies will follow.”

Greenpeace also issued an animated video in September last year on YouTube which condemns the coal-sourced power in its Prineville and Oregon data centers. The video was named ‘The So-Coal Network’ and was aired around the time The Social Network based on Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of Facebook was to be released.

Greenpeace states that 680,000 people are supporting the campaign urging Facebook “to disclose its carbon footprint and to act as advocates for clean energy.”

According to Greenpeace, coal is one of the most crucial elements affecting the climate and each data center at Facebook uses power equal to around 40,000 US residences.

According to Facebook, Oregon was selected for its data centers due to the moderate climate of the city that allows the environmental air to cool the data center and reduces the need for coolers.

Harrell commented, “Efficiency in itself is not enough to equal green considering the power that the Internet requires. We’re not asking Facebook to power their data centers with rainbows and unicorns, but we want them to ask these questions of the utility companies that power data centers.”

According to Greenpeace, the video is available in 14 different language subtitles.

 

ASP is Useful for Web Hosting

April 2nd, 2011 No comments

ASP, an abbreviation for Active Server Pages is considered to be very useful and beneficial for creating dynamic web pages, websites and other web programs. The .NET platform and Microsoft’s ASP are known to show good results when combined to form a website as ASP platform is considered to be a great feature for programmers. ASP web hosting offers numerous benefits and one of the most useful benefits is that it allows to build professional and vibrant websites and web programs that are supported by all kinds of browsers.

As compared to PHP which is frequently used by blogging websites like Joomla, WordPress and even Mambo, ASP offers more sophisticated systems and programs for web hosting. One reason for ASP’s extraordinary web hosting services is that the user may operate both Microsoft ASP along with HTML to build a cooperative and sophisticated website for their customers.

ASP also allows the user to build customized preferences depending on the data gathered after the previous visit of the user. This is the best option for all types of users, especially for business owners as it enables them to manage ASP technology for the purpose of customer service information for the website.

VEXXHOST Offers Ruby On Rails 3

March 30th, 2011 No comments

VEXXHOST web hosting company has announced to offer Ruby on Rails 3 support on its cPanel for its web hosting clients. The company has been testing and trying its compatibility for the last few weeks and is now pleased to offer a brand new feature to its clients. The plan is priced at $3.99 and allows all new and current clients to operate any Ruby on Rails 3 application.

Established in 2006, VEXXHOST has been offering its customers with Linux and reseller webhosting plans with maximum uptime. VEXXHOST has been known for being a trend setter in offering latest technologies in shared web hosting and has proved itself once again with the inclusion of Rails 3 in its webhosting plans. No other cPanel web host supports such a feature.

Generally, the backend supporting Rails content is Mongrel, yet, Mongrel does not serve any Rails 3 application as of now, because it has been ported to be a Rack application. VEXXHOST uses a strong and reliable Ruby on Rails back-end in the form of Passenger to support its Rails content.

 

Web Hosting– A Mean to Coin Money

March 28th, 2011 No comments

Web hosting is a form of business activity providing space storage on web. Masses pertaining to the marketing field are of the view that advertising through uttering spoken words is second to none. Moreover personal experiences add to someone’s real knowledge about a product. Favorable news could be endorsed with great ease as it pertains to the very instinct of human beings that they inclined to react positively towards news which they find favorable for them. Same is in the case of hosting. It is a valuable tool for business bases.

Technical assistance:

Technical support is a kind of life blood to web hosting. In the haste of capturing market and hitting target audience, your web site might be confronted with many problems. Sometimes, you have to talk to the exact person and your hosting company must have a 24/7 unplugged Internet connection and other active means. Capability is of major importance which is neglected very often, and if the technique is not abreast with modern knowledge you may get into hot water.

Characteristics:

Characteristics are normally neglected but they are badly needed to hit the bull’s eye.

Control panel, a walk to website:

Control panel is of inevitable importance in various websites. There is a wide variety of control panels I-e cpanel11, H-sphere enabling you to perform multiple tasks; from building email accounts to billing modifications.

Database Support:

Database support is offered on different financial hierarchies as servers are ought to have limited capability. So it is peremptory that all the specifications of web hosting packages must be properly read out.

Site Backups:

Computers are supposed to confront with enormous problems and security threats. To counter this very issue websites have backup system, similar to the computer security system. Regardless of all the foresaid precautions, computer systems have to undergo continuous threats pertaining to their security setup.

Credibility:

Credibility is an aspect which is often compromised by the web designers until and unless some problems are being aroused. You should be pretty sure of the fact that your site should be in the proper working condition for long hours. The acceptable uptime for a particular website amounts for about 99.5%, anything less than that should not be compromised at all.

Servers are needed to be reset time and again after a particular and defined span of time. One tremendous improvement in this regard is “Server Load Balancing” which is used to distribute work amongst different kind of devices. The reason is the optimal utilization of the resources.

In a nutshell, to get the top hosting plan, there is a grave need to establish expert and well equipped team for customer and technical support. This team is inevitable to get the matters resolved.

Characteristics are something those that cannot be compromised with. Credibility should top all the priorities in order to bear palm. It emphasizes on the fact that one is paving grounds for coining money to the maximum extent.

 

 

Low Cost Web Hosting Service Providers

March 25th, 2011 No comments

For new businesses, it is necessary to find a low cost web hosting solution, but, initially, it may seem to be a hard task. However, once you find a low cost web hosting solution you might think why the task was so difficult at first. For a successful business venture, spending lots of money on web hosting is not necessary as a low cost web hosting solution might also aid to the success of your business. To locate a cheap web hosting plan, you can take the help of friends who are already running their own businesses or you may find a good plan from the top 10 web hosting solutions for the year on the internet. While searching for a cheap web hosting plan, it is important to ensure that the plan provides everything that you will need to run your website.

ChimeHost

ChimeHost is known to provide one of the cheapest web hosting solutions. It offers three package deals; for beginners, it offers a 36 month plan priced below $2.00 per month with a free domain. With ChimeHost, your website will receive outstanding traffic ensuring profits for your business. Although the beginner package provides numerous features, but, if you are looking for a package that offers everything, then check out the Pro Plus Hosting priced at $2.99 for 36 months.

Just Host

Just Host ranks as one of the best web hosting solutions for 2011. Its web hosting package offers everything that you may need to operate a business at $4.45 per month. Some features comprise of a free domain name, round the clock customer support, free e-commerce support and mailing lists. With round the clock support, they also help you in setting up your website. All it will require of you is to sit and wait for the clients to visit you.