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It wasn’t at all surprising to see web hosting ads claiming to be a “Green” environment friendly web hosting company. With the save-our-planet movement getting all the hype after a lot of climactic disasters have been hitting the planet lately, the call to be eco-friendly has reached the ears of staid IT managers in their glass houses.

Okay, what does it mean for a web hosting bureau to be green? Well, if I follow the example of companies like Anso.net, you just have to harness the power of the sun and reduce electricity consumption.  A couple of years back, it was reported that Anso had their data center solar powered thereby reducing electric consumption.  Hmm, is being green a good idea for web hosting companies?  Maybe not in the northern hemisphere where the sun gets hidden for half the year.

There are two sexes, two political parties, and there are two operating platforms that web hosting providers are divided on – Linux and Windows.  One is a freebie on an open source kernel and the other is license-encumbered. It isn’t worth getting into a debate on which one is better. Windows had corrected stability issues though it still short of the popularity and robustness of the Linux environment. 

But both do a good job of hosting any number of websites on any server set-up.  It’s often a matter of choice made by the people who set up the web hosting business.  If you’re a Linux buy in charge of setting it up, then you go Linux.  And the opposite is true.  So which one is your cup of tea?

And so much depends on the web hosting bureau providing the bandwidth to get this done.  I’ve notice my colleagues downloading the latest songs and movies right from internet sites.  Be it paid or free, torrent sites or file sharing storage sites like rapidshare and megaupload, sets the trend and seems pretty much clear.

Consumers are now getting wise.  What will they do with all those movie and music discs sitting on their shelves gathering dust?  Storing them as video and mp3 files on a terabyte sized hard drive is now easy and economical.  What’s more, it’s more convenient.  Just a click away and you get to listen to your favorite music or watch movies from your PC with a 32 inch LCD display.  So web hosts, be sure to get your bandwidth ready.

After seeing proof that the search engine business is a lucrative online commerce, Microsoft has started to make its intentions of getting into it in very clear terms. It looks like anything that Microsoft had touched has been turning into a cash cow lately.  When it wanted a piece of the gaming market, its Xbox product line has certainly stolen the rug from under Sony’s Playstation. 
Earlier, it outdid Novell to become the preferred corporate networking standard previously dominated by Novell. So now, with its Bing search engine at MSN, Microsoft just might do the same with Google. If Microsoft failed to buy Google in 2007, guess what, it’s going to clash with it head on.