With the rapid spread of technology, IT companies have to be concerned with the effects of continuously adding new network hardware components. These components require an abundant use of energy to power and keep cool. As our need and desire for increased technological items increases, the usage of energy and storage we will require will increase substantially. Estimates predict that e-paper will soon cost less then real paper, but we still have a way to go.

We have a launched a website, www.zeek.us, which plans on helping out by shortening long URLs into short ones. This will help by reducing the cache size, length of log files, and size of backups on search engines such as Google, Yahoo, and Bing. Their servers will not require as many ASCII characters in their enormously large cache files, which in turn will greatly reduce overhead, resulting in less servers needed to be powered on.

With www.zeek.us, your URL's are only a mere twenty characters long, not only saving space in our search giant's machines, but also dramatically reducing the need for more power to run those servers. In a 2007 report filed by the EPA, "..annual energy consumption from data centers in the U.S. exceeds that of 5.7 million American households." Now, in 2010, that number has definitely increased, and doing our part to reduce energy use will be very important in our planet's future.

zeek.us strives to help produce more Green URL's to be more eco-friendly for our planet! Come try us out today, it's completely free!