I recently got kinda almost scammed. You may have recently noticed a small advertisement in my sidebar that was promoting a wonderful web hosting company that uses solar and wind power to operate their servers. I joined their affiliate program after reading their sales pitch. The idea of having carbon neutral hosting appealed to me. I didn’t go so far as to move my hosting, even though they were selling me hard on it. I have a very reliable host and I would recommend them to a friend.
When I started to lay the groundwork to really promote this great company the next day a funny thing happened. I tried to load their website and it wasn’t there. In fact it is still down after a few days of checking. At first, I joked with Catherine that it must be dark where they are, but after thinking about the situation for awhile I started to get perturbed. Obviously, I am no longer interested in trying to sell this web hosting service to my readers.
I guess the lesson that I can take from this is to be skeptical of companies that are trying to cash in on environmental idealism.