Ethical Jobs switches its hosting to an entirely solar powered provider

We should all do what we can to help the environment and Ethical Jobs is putting its money where its mouth is and has switched its website to 100% solar powered hosting from EcologicalHosting.com.

[ClickPress, Fri Mar 31 2006] As from 30th March 2006, all of the energy used by the ethical-jobs.co.uk web site will be generated by the biggest power station in the Solar System, our sun.

“We are all guilty of neglect and of taking the easy option sometimes when it comes to doing the right thing for the planet. Fortunately, most of us are starting on the right road by recycling glass, cans and paper but we still cause massive environmental damage by unnecessarily leaving appliances plugged in on standby, overfilling electric kettles, not switching off lights and, in the case of Ethical Jobs, using conventional servers powered by electricity generated by the burning of fossil fuels.

As most people will no doubt have figured out by now, the servers that host our websites need to be operational and connected to the Internet every hour of every day in order to make our websites available.

Fortunately for us, we discovered EcologicalHosting.com and have made the switch to fully solar powered hosting thereby dramatically reducing the effect our business has on our fragile and beautiful planet” said Ethical Jobs founder, Jason Elliott.

Most servers are high specification machines with multiple hard disk drives that use a large amount of electrical power when you consider that they are operating around the clock. It doesn't stop with the computers either, the data centres take even more power for control systems, lighting, air conditioning, battery backup systems, fire control systems, office computer systems and so on.

Nearly all data centres obtain their main power from the local grid supply and will more than likely be operating on the cheapest tariff they can find. This means that all these servers are using up very large amounts of electricity that has been generated from non-renewable sources such as coal, gas or nuclear power stations. Many estimates on oil reserves suggest that there is only about 40 years or so left before we run out. We need to act now to cut our usage and save this valuable resource.

For more information contact Jason at Ethical Jobs or go directly to the Ecological Hosting website at www.ecologicalhosting.com

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