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This Website Is Carbon Aware

• DamonHD 4y ago
  I do work 'work storage' to defer work when updating my static site, eg https://www.earth.org.uk/note-on-site-technicals-42.html#Storage https://www.earth.org.uk/note-on-site-technicals-42.html#Sto... in response to local solar energy and battery levels. But the site could also respond dynamically in a similar way triggering the same mechanism as it does to the Save-Data header.
  • fershad 4y ago
    Really nice idea, to defer builds until they can be powered by renewable energy. This is something that'd be nice to see from managed hosting services.
    • DamonHD 4y ago
      Both approaches have merits and demerits of course, and could be combined too. BTW, for GB/UK sites my own system publishes flags easily testable over HTTP (see foot of https://www.earth.org.uk/_gridCarbonIntensityGB.html https://www.earth.org.uk/_gridCarbonIntensityGB.html page) and I used to test those on my cloud UK services when I had them, but I also used to defer non-essential work in servers all over the world at their local peak grid times of day.
      • fershad 4y ago
        Cheers. Interesting approach. Looking forward to reading this over the weekend to see what ideas it might foster.
        • DamonHD 4y ago
          I've linked together the (so far) four separate parts / notes on it, but if there is anything that you have a burning question on after reading those, ask me!