Pants are overrated

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OMG Amazeballs!! I need some of those pants.

Don't forget Sheryl Crow's advice of using only one square of toilet paper per trip to the toilet:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/6583067.stm

If you do take this advice, please do not minimize your use of pants.

James

Maybe we should take the advise of the romans and use sponges on sticks...

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Or bidets. And then we can cool the servers with that water.

Edit: Dear mother of god, this will give entire new meaning to the phrase crappy pagerank...

I'd hate for that to leak...

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I gotta take a data leak... (I can see this going bad fast... but I couldn't resist, sorry folks)

Right off the bat most any cloud provider is going to be significantly more efficient than any dedicated or colocated solution (unless you're getting really high utilization on your servers).

Customers can do a great deal themselves by running their infrastructure on the smallest and least number of Linodes possible (without compromising performance or reliability/availability, obviously). This has the added benefit of saving money.

All too often we see people here using money in place of proper configuration. You can throw 10GB of RAM at Apache and be perfectly happy with the default Apache configuration, or you can change the Apache config file and probably run the same workload just peachy with 512MB of RAM. This has the added benefit of using a heck of a lot less power.

And how (exactly) does this fine thread save the world?

China willingly steals all of the wests technology, except those concerning environment safety. China ranks #1 in green house gases, and is doing NOTHING to slow that down.

The middle east and far asia is by far the most polluted regions of the planet.

India and Pakistan are rapidly shooting up the scale as the top emitters of CO2.

So I should pay 2-12 times the going rate of electricity to be "green" so I can make some tree hugger who can't do basic math happy?

An excellent attitude for apathetic apocalyptic destruction, vonskippy.

Edit: More on-topic, Linode doesn't run their own data centers. Is it common for colocation customers to figure out their PUE or look at where their power comes from? I'd expect them to only look at the costs they can directly control, which are, what, space and electricity usage? As for where the electricity comes from, from Linode's POV the only relevant answer is "the wall".

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The best you can do is look at the companies that provide colocation to Linode. Here's what the people who run the London datacenter have to say: www.telecitygroup.com/environment.

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+1 for green renewables

Linode could increase their profit by switching to green renewables, then use that as a sales point in their sale strategy and advertising.

According to Greenpeace, both Amazon and Digital Realty are "Stuck in dirty energy past: Efficiency only, using mostly dirty energy, have taken few or no steps to switch to renewables". Source: http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/en/campai ... kingclean/

And what magic pie-in-the-sky tree hugger spreadsheet are you using to back up that business model tidbit?

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Holy necroposting, Batman!

Sounds like the term for "composting" with zombies (but hey, at least that's green right?).

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