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How to Build and Host an Energy Efficient Web Site

posted by chromas on Thursday September 27 2018, @01:20PM   Printer-friendly
from the hope-we-don't-drain-the-battery dept.

canopic jug writes:

Low-tech Magazine explains how to build a low-tech web site, using its own (solar powered) web site as an example. They cover both the web design and the actual hardware in use, an Olimex A20. The idea is to radically reduce the energy use associated with accessing the content, seeing as complex designs with Javascript have burdensome resource requirements that translate into increased use of electricity. Renewable power sources alone are not enough to address the growing energy use of the Internet. Their server is also self-hosted so there's no need for third-party tracking and cookies either.

Low-tech Magazine was born in 2007 and has seen minimal changes ever since. Because a website redesign was long overdue — and because we try to practice what we preach — we decided to build a low-tech, self-hosted, and solar-powered version of Low-tech Magazine. The new blog is designed to radically reduce the energy use associated with accessing our content.

Earlier on SN:
Conservative Web Development (2018)
About a Third of All Web Sites Run on WordPress (2018)
Please, Keep your Blog Light (2018)

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  • (Score: 2) by DannyB on Thursday September 27 2018, @06:28PM (1 child)

    by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Thursday September 27 2018, @06:28PM (#740932) Journal

    What a crap page. Not only did you fail to close a tag, you forgot:
    * scripts to provide a highly interactive user experience
    * ads
    * social media integration buttons and tracking
    * user engagement (tracking you)
    * google analytics
    * more ads
    * videos
    * user satisfaction scripts (stalking you)
    * more scripts and crap under the name of other euphemisms, even though it still means junk that doesn't help the user in any way

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by RS3 on Thursday September 27 2018, @08:06PM

    by RS3 (6367) on Thursday September 27 2018, @08:06PM (#741006)

    Please don't forget the popups, slide-ins, videos that not only start playing, but float so they stay onscreen no matter how much you try to scroll them off. Yes, I use video blockers, but I notice they saturate my Internet connection even when not playing.

    If only we could direct and control all of that evil cleverness, we might be able to cure cancer or something useful.