Michelle Waters, founder and owner of Watersweb Solutions, says the decision was in keeping with the company’s overall commitment to reducing global pollution. “We design websites and offer hosting services, so we are certainly a consumer of electricity. Clients who choose us for web hosting and design services can rest assured they are not contributing to global pollution – and are, in fact, becoming part of the ‘solution.’”

According to the Environmental Protection Agency, conventional electricity generation causes air emissions; it’s estimated that fossil fuel-fired power plants are responsible for 67 percent of the nation’s sulfur dioxide emissions, 23 percent of nitrogen oxide emissions, and 40 percent of man-made carbon dioxide emissions. Renewable energy certificates work to combat the problem by allowing consumers to purchase “green” energy which is supplied to the region’s power grid, replacing electricity generated from non-renewable sources such as fossil fuels and nuclear power.

“The program works because of the National Energy Act of 1978, a federal law that mandates that those who manage the grid purchase renewable energy when it is available,” says Waters. “Each time a consumer or business purchases renewable energy, it decreases the same amount of conventionally generated electricity purchased for the grid. It also has the added benefit of encouraging the building of new, renewable generation facilities in the US, since certificate sales drive the creation of new facilities.”

The purchase of the renewable energy certificates from 3 Phases Energy also makes Watersweb Solutions eligible to use the Green-e logo on its website, which gives consumers an easy way to identify high quality, certified renewable energy options, as well as everyday products made with certified renewable energy.

Watersweb Solutions is also in the process of joining the Environmental Protection Agency’s Green Power partnership, a voluntary program that recognizes leaders in the green power market and works to standardize best practices in corporate environmental management. “According to the EPA website, Watersweb Solutions is one of the first Oklahoma businesses to join this partnership,” says Waters. “Hopefully, other businesses in the region will join as well. Clean energy makes good business sense. I think it’s especially important to see that a small business or an individual can actually have a measurable, meaningful impact on helping the environment.”

“Many work at home moms are starting on a shoestring budget,” said Michelle Waters, Free WAHM Hosting owner. “They don’t have a lot of money for a fancy site and pricey web hosting. They just aren’t willing to dip into the family grocery budget to start a career. This is where my new business comes in. The new WAHM gets a free site—while more established WAHMs have an opportunity to help support her while gaining additional exposure.”

Free WAHM Hosting provides basic services including 25 MB webspace, 2 GB bandwidth, HTML Editor, File Manager,an email account and a your-username.freewahmhosting.com web address. Mothers can host galleries of the children’s pictures or craft projects. Or WAHMs can use Paypal buttons or the Mals-E Cart (http://www.mals-e.com) to create a simple ecommerce site.

The new site features several options for ecommerce, community and brochure web site needs. Our Hosting, Shops and Template sites will not be affected.

During the next several weeks, we will phase out most of the content at watersweb.net and move it to the appropriate site. This site will serve as a portal for all of our sites. Thank you!

"We have recently experienced some downtime as a result of high server loads,” said Watersweb owner, Michelle Waters. “Our sites were hosted on a server with 500 other sites, resulting in noticable slowness. With the new servers, we will no longer experience slow or down times as the result of activity by other sites. We should experience a significant increase in speed and uptime."

After the move, only Watersweb client sites will reside on the server, which features a Intel Celeron 2.4, Red Hat Linux operating system, Apache web server, two 80 GB IDE hard drives, Cpanel control panel and 512 MB RAM. The server will be housed in a secure datacenter in Jacksonville, Florida, providing redundant, uninterruptible power system; redundant temperature and humidity controls; dry fire suppression system; multi-layer, redundant configuration network; and backup generator industry standard security systems.

Create a powerful business presence using our Shop Kit package. Featuring a web catalog script with a secure, password-protected administration panel you can add unlimited products and options. The Mals-E shopping cart integrates seamlessly for quick, easy online sales.

Or choose our Shop Kit Plus package to power your entire website. With our browser-based HTML editor, customizing your site template (or creating your own) is a breeze. Unlimited pages and articles allow you to sell your products and provide your customers with loads of information. This package also features a wish list, gift registry, event calendar, web links, guestbook and faq list.

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