Server does your tree planting for you

GET PLANTING PEOPLE, as studies show that in order to offset the 1,126,156 tonnes of preventable greenhouse gasses produced by three million UK web servers a year, we need to plant 154,268 trees.

The wastage is estimated to be the same as an ex-INQUIRER editor flying to India and back again a million times to try and set up a rival web site.

That is not just an awful lot of trees - the cost of planting that amount of greenery is estimated to be from £1,812,649.00.

If you're looking for a slightly cheaper and easier option you could donate towards the ‘Clean Energy Fund’, although that would set you back £844,612.50 to offset the 112,615 tonnes of CO2 emissions.

European hosting company Amenworld.com believes it has the answer to our eco-prayers with its range of "eco" servers.

Apparently, each server saves the exact amount wasted by "other" servers – 632kg of CO2 per year.

The subscription price tag on the ECO 1000 server is £39 per month - £46 including VAT.

Here's what you get for that

ECO 1000
• CPU: AMD Athlon x2 3400, 2 x 1.8 GHz
• RAM memory: 1GB
• Hard Disk: 80GB
• Monthly traffic: 1TB
• Windows operating system: Windows Server 2003
• Linux operating systems: Fedora Core 7, Ubuntu 6, Debian 4
• Control Panel: Plesk 8.2
• Domains: 10
• Fixed IP addresses: 1

Get calculating its carbon footprint.

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