Comments on: How to Offset the Carbon Emissions of your Website http://www.webeden.co.uk/blog/how-to/how-to-offset-the-carbon-emissions-of-your-website/ Latest news from Webeden Sat, 11 Feb 2012 11:46:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: admin http://www.webeden.co.uk/blog/how-to/how-to-offset-the-carbon-emissions-of-your-website/#comment-3215 admin Wed, 06 Jan 2010 08:23:15 +0000 http://www.webeden.co.uk/blog/?p=1062#comment-3215 Hi Rob, Its not done for your websites currently. Ken Hi Rob,

Its not done for your websites currently.

Ken

]]> By: admin http://www.webeden.co.uk/blog/how-to/how-to-offset-the-carbon-emissions-of-your-website/#comment-3214 admin Wed, 06 Jan 2010 08:22:21 +0000 http://www.webeden.co.uk/blog/?p=1062#comment-3214 Hi Phil, We don't offset customer websites currently, but it is an issue we've looked at, and will continue to evaluate. Currently the offset cost for each server is such that we'd need to ad 50p per package per month to the prices in order to be able to afford it. We offset our own website with coco2.org however. However as you can see from Rob's comment above not everyone is into this! Ken Hi Phil,

We don’t offset customer websites currently, but it is an issue we’ve looked at, and will continue to evaluate. Currently the offset cost for each server is such that we’d need to ad 50p per package per month to the prices in order to be able to afford it.

We offset our own website with coco2.org however. However as you can see from Rob’s comment above not everyone is into this!

Ken

]]> By: rob http://www.webeden.co.uk/blog/how-to/how-to-offset-the-carbon-emissions-of-your-website/#comment-3211 rob Tue, 05 Jan 2010 19:20:46 +0000 http://www.webeden.co.uk/blog/?p=1062#comment-3211 Sorry don't buy into this carbon crap,. please don't do any of this in the name of my web-sites. Sorry don’t buy into this carbon crap,. please don’t do any of this in the name of my web-sites.

]]> By: Philip Evans http://www.webeden.co.uk/blog/how-to/how-to-offset-the-carbon-emissions-of-your-website/#comment-3210 Philip Evans Tue, 05 Jan 2010 16:41:23 +0000 http://www.webeden.co.uk/blog/?p=1062#comment-3210 Interesting issue... You should be offsetting the the carbon from your server, even though we pay to use it in my opinion. Does webeden offset? Interesting issue…

You should be offsetting the the carbon from your server, even though we pay to use it in my opinion.

Does webeden offset?

]]> By: admin http://www.webeden.co.uk/blog/how-to/how-to-offset-the-carbon-emissions-of-your-website/#comment-3209 admin Tue, 05 Jan 2010 14:11:43 +0000 http://www.webeden.co.uk/blog/?p=1062#comment-3209 Hi Suze, You're right, the cost of electricity to maintain servers is recouped by every ISP via the hosting fees. Some ISPs and hosts choose to offset the carbon emissions from all their customer websites by paying the offset fee themselves. Many other hosts leave the option to you the customer to offset these emissions. WebEden for example does not offset the carbon emissions from the electricity consumed in the running of each website. As a website owner you can choose to do this yourself. The carbon offsetting by COCO2.org is not an exact amount for each individual website, but an approximation based on the type of hosting service used by the website. I hope that clears it up, but agree that the responsibility for carbon offsetting can lie with many different parties. Ken Hi Suze,

You’re right, the cost of electricity to maintain servers is recouped by every ISP via the hosting fees.

Some ISPs and hosts choose to offset the carbon emissions from all their customer websites by paying the offset fee themselves.

Many other hosts leave the option to you the customer to offset these emissions.

WebEden for example does not offset the carbon emissions from the electricity consumed in the running of each website. As a website owner you can choose to do this yourself.

The carbon offsetting by COCO2.org is not an exact amount for each individual website, but an approximation based on the type of hosting service used by the website.

I hope that clears it up, but agree that the responsibility for carbon offsetting can lie with many different parties.

Ken

]]> By: Suze http://www.webeden.co.uk/blog/how-to/how-to-offset-the-carbon-emissions-of-your-website/#comment-3197 Suze Sun, 03 Jan 2010 07:34:44 +0000 http://www.webeden.co.uk/blog/?p=1062#comment-3197 I'm confused about your concept, please correct me. Isn't the cost of electricity to maintain servers recouped by every ISP via hosting fees, to remain viable? Shouldn't your offset product be marketed to ISP's rather than individual website owners? Because, only the ISP can verify the electricity used via the bill they receive - they know how much needs to be offset. As a website owner, paying hosting fees to my ISP, I expect these costs to be covered in the hosting fees. I can't verify how much electricity has been used to host just my website. Perhaps I've misunderstood, is this being marketed to ISP's or also to those of us paying for website hosting? I’m confused about your concept, please correct me.

Isn’t the cost of electricity to maintain servers recouped by every ISP via hosting fees, to remain viable?

Shouldn’t your offset product be marketed to ISP’s rather than individual website owners? Because, only the ISP can verify the electricity used via the bill they receive – they know how much needs to be offset.

As a website owner, paying hosting fees to my ISP, I expect these costs to be covered in the hosting fees. I can’t verify how much electricity has been used to host just my website.

Perhaps I’ve misunderstood, is this being marketed to ISP’s or also to those of us paying for website hosting?

]]> By: Alison Cross http://www.webeden.co.uk/blog/how-to/how-to-offset-the-carbon-emissions-of-your-website/#comment-2497 Alison Cross Wed, 02 Sep 2009 11:34:48 +0000 http://www.webeden.co.uk/blog/?p=1062#comment-2497 Yup - signed up for £6! I offer the option to register with coco2 when I build sites for clients. Ask them to write a guest blog about why people should sign up with them? Ali x Yup – signed up for £6!

I offer the option to register with coco2 when I build sites for clients. Ask them to write a guest blog about why people should sign up with them?

Ali x

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