Why Green Design?

What is Green Design?

Green today has become syn­onym­ous with sav­ing the very earth we live on. It is an acknow­ledged fact that if we do not take con­trol of the greedy people who will only ever think of now and not the future longev­ity, we will lose it all.

There is no profit in not think­ing green.

Long term we are all affected when min­ing com­pan­ies leave us with acid water and kilo­metres of aban­doned mines and strip mines, dev­ast­at­ing the local area and affect­ing millions.

The short term fin­an­cial gains will be wiped out by the real­ity of no planet to give life.

How does this affect your web site?

Simple, by host­ing your web sites on serv­ers that use green tech­no­logy and in some cases are com­pletely powered by solar energy, we are doing our bit to keep the ball we live on, alive. By host­ing with us you are doing a small part of your duty to help this home we all share, earth. We use the low­est power in the way we design web pages ensur­ing that the amount of energy it takes to down­load our web pages means they load in under 8second on a dial up con­nec­tion and in under 4seconds on a high speed con­nec­tion. The longer it takes to load means it takes more power, more power = less green. Less green = less profit for you and Google is now tak­ing this into account.

Google will pen­al­ise you for hav­ing power hungry web sites that load too slowly.

Not too sur­pris­ing when you con­sider how much it costs Google to down­load and index those pages when they are run­ning server farms that are big­ger than some suburbs.

So you need to check on a reg­u­lar basis if your web site is load­ing as fast as it can. I do, does your web developer?