Ask HN: What's the lowest carbon impact way to build a web page in 2020?

#1

Post by dgerges » Tue, Sep 29, 2020, 1:20 PM UTC

We're a Tech Hub based in Rennes, France and rebuilding our Web presence, we would like to setup a good practice for building a presence with the lowest possible carbon footprints. What are some providers or techniques you could point us to ?

Re: Ask HN: What's the lowest carbon impact way to build a web page in 2020?

#2

Post by raffraffraff » Tue, Sep 29, 2020, 1:33 PM UTC

Define "website".

The lowest carbon way is also probably the cheapest way. I dunno, maybe a static site on the cheapest s3 tier (with reduced redundancy) using cloudflare's free tier (workers, CDN, DDoS protection, SSL).

Re: Ask HN: What's the lowest carbon impact way to build a web page in 2020?

#3

Post by searchableguy » Tue, Sep 29, 2020, 1:34 PM UTC

Google cloud if you want a big vendor.

https://cloud.google.com/sustainability

EU based smaller hosting provider such as scaleway:

https://www.scaleway.com/en/about-us/

For website, static generation opposes to loading ton of javascript and using a cdn.

Not much to go on here.

Re: Ask HN: What's the lowest carbon impact way to build a web page in 2020?

#4

Post by dgerges » Tue, Sep 29, 2020, 6:59 PM UTC

raffraffraff wrote: post #2

Define "website". The lowest carbon way is also probably the cheapest way. I dunno, maybe a static site on the cheapest s3 tier (with reduced redundancy) using cloudflare's free tier (workers, CDN, DDoS protection, SSL).

Website = a couple of static pages + images + a few forms embeds running on airtable

Re: Ask HN: What's the lowest carbon impact way to build a web page in 2020?

#5

Post by dgerges » Tue, Sep 29, 2020, 6:59 PM UTC

dgerges wrote: post #4

raffraffraff wrote: post #2

Define "website". The lowest carbon way is also probably the cheapest way. I dunno, maybe a static site on the cheapest s3 tier (with reduced redundancy) using cloudflare's free tier (workers, CDN, DDoS protection, SSL).

Website = a couple of static pages + images + a few forms embeds running on airtable

Thx !

Re: Ask HN: What's the lowest carbon impact way to build a web page in 2020?

#6

Post by dgerges » Tue, Sep 29, 2020, 6:59 PM UTC

searchableguy wrote: post #3

Google cloud if you want a big vendor. https://cloud.google.com/sustainability EU based smaller hosting provider such as scaleway: https://www.scaleway.com/en/about-us/ For website, static generation opposes to loading ton of javascript and using a cdn. Not much to go on here.

Thx !