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The environmental impact of web hosting has emerged as a hot topic in discussions about sustainability, prompting a shift toward more responsible technology practices.

Web hosting, an essential component of the digital world, is critical in determining the environmental impact of online activity. Against this context, sustainable dedicated servers for businesses in India appear to be an appealing solution, offering improved performance and a way to reduce the ecological imprint of hosting services.

This article explores the complexities of web hosting’s environmental impact, highlighting data centre energy use, and the carbon footprint associated with traditional hosting methods.

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Cybersecurity researchers have recently discovered a new vulnerability in the HTTP/2 protocol, which allows threat actors to mount denial of service (DoS) attacks and even crash servers with a single TCP connection.

The vulnerability relates to the use of HTTP/2 CONTINUATION frames, which is why the researcher who found it, Barket Nowotarski, dubbed it “CONTINUATION Flood”.

Google’s John Mueller for the umpteenth time said that sharing IP addresses and/or having your site on a shared server and/or using a CDN that does all of that, is fine for Google Search, SEO and ranking. In fact, he said it is “normal” for sites to do this.

John wrote on X, “There are a limited number of IP addresses, it’s normal for them to be shared.” This was in response to the concern that sharing IPs or hosting with spammy sites can hurt your SEO:

There are a limited number of IP addresses, it’s normal for them to be shared.

— John (@JohnMu) April 3, 2024

I mean, there are super rare cases where Google has banned hosts completely and wipped out a whole ccTLD of sorts. But that is super rare, which I guess is where the rumors started from.

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