SensoryMetrics » iceland-geothermal http://sensorymetrics.com re-inventing the User eXperience Thu, 22 Apr 2010 23:46:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 SM traffic fickle to measure – Icelandic web hosting? http://sensorymetrics.com/2007/09/27/sm-traffic-fickle-to-measure-icelandic-web-hosting/ http://sensorymetrics.com/2007/09/27/sm-traffic-fickle-to-measure-icelandic-web-hosting/#comments Thu, 27 Sep 2007 05:10:12 +0000 Baxter http://sensorymetrics.com/2007/09/27/sm-traffic-fickle-to-measure-icelandic-web-hosting/ The readership that we have at SensoryMetrics is at times impressive. Usually it’s about 2 to 6 hundred people a day. However, our comments seem so low with only about 5 to 8 regular participants along with a few thousand spam comments which occasionally get past us. Of course, we probably also delete the occasional [...]]]> The readership that we have at SensoryMetrics is at times impressive. Usually it’s about 2 to 6 hundred people a day. However, our comments seem so low with only about 5 to 8 regular participants along with a few thousand spam comments which occasionally get past us. Of course, we probably also delete the occasional false positive. Whoops, sorry! ;-)

I once thought that the lifespan of a blog post would be about 45 minutes. For SM, posts that are 2 months or older gain the most traffic. It would seem that it takes time for us to reach our audience. It sometimes seems a little weird to be responding to comments to a post that is six months old.

Today we also added the WP-cache plug-in to SM which will hopefully keep our poor Bluehost web host providers from frying their computer chips and generating excess heat. The idea is to reduce the number of individual hits to the server it takes to generate a single SM page. At peak traffic times such as when someone Diggs your site, a popular page is reduced to a single cached version of the page instead of dozens or more calls to our mySQL database.

I’ve been wondering about the energy costs and environmental impact it is to run a web server. I’m guessing a few watts of energy running continuously adds up over time. Is the web server being cooled by an air conditioner?

Are there web host providers that run off clean sustainable energy? Seems it’d be worth a few extra dollars if it’s available. I’ll have to look into it.. Where’s the cleanest energy in the world? Probably Iceland with its geothermal heat systems. Woof! Woof!

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