1. AISO Affordable Internet Service Online, Inc It is the world’s first 100% solar powered “web hosting” company. AISO was established in the year 1997 Web Domain: http://www.aiso.nethttp://www.aiso.net

2. Web Host And Web Server: Overview Web hosts are companies that use a “Web Server” to provide storage space for many web sites so that those websites can be made accessible at any given time Web servers on the other hand are computers that allow the website to be accessible via the Internet. They are not the same things, Web Hosts use Web Servers in order to make websites accessible to the end user via the Internet.

3. Increasing Web Popularity May 2007 – 118 million websites. October 2007 – 142 million websites. Total increase in 6 months – 24 million websites. That’s 130,435 websites created on an average every single day!

4. Growth Trend of the past 6 months

5. Effect Of The Increasing Web Popularity More and more web servers are being used to support all these growing number of websites. The more traffic (visitors) a website gets the more intensive are its server needs, sometimes a website may need more than one server to accommodate its content and traffic. Google for instance, has somewhere between 500,000-1,000,000 web servers.

6. So What’s The Problem? Web servers have to kept on all the times. A web server [much like a standard computer] consumes 100-250 watts electricity per hour. So one can only imagine how much electricity thousands possibly millions of web servers consume per year. The price we are paying for our “free information” on the web is possibly our natural resources.

7. Coming back to AISO Something needs to be done about this massive consumption of electricity. AISO is doing “something” AISO is making use of the most abundant form of energy available on earth – Solar Energy AISO has installed 12 solar panels on their roofs to provide power to their offices, data centres and all their servers.

8. 2 Of 12 Solar Panels AISO Uses

9. It helps reduce the emission of the following things per year: 19,890 pounds of Carbon Dioxide (CO2/GHG) 5.9 pounds of Nitrous Oxide (NOX/smog) 0.45 pounds of Sulphur Dioxide (SO4/acid rain ) How Does This Solar Panel System Help ?

10. Problem AISO is facing The solar panel system is a lot more expensive to set up than using conventional electricity This cost reflects in their hosting plans which is a little more expensive than its competitors They have less customers because of the price hike.

11. Comparing AISO With Leading Web hosts. Web HostsAISOLunar PagesYAHOO Disk Space500 MBUnlimited10 GB Data Transfer15 GB3500 GB400 GB Price$24.95$ 21.95$19.95

12. AISO Financial Stability Despite of having to face all the initial cost problems, AISO.NET is currently doing a great job. Since 1997, AISO has been a stable, profitable, debt-free, corporation. They are growing an average rate of twenty percent per year and are expecting this rate to grow over the next few years.

13. Conclusion: Solar power is the most reliable and the most abundant source of energy available to us today and we need to make use of it in every possible way. Government should encourage the use of renewable sources of energy. People should be made aware of the benefits using solar energy. More research should be done in this field so as to find a way to reduce the cost We need to make sure that our actions today do not effect our FUTURE.

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