open4energy started life as a live resume' for an out of work sales engineer in April 2009
Thanks to the simplicity of implementing Drupal, the readily available themes and 3rd party modules it did not take long to have a home page and my thoughts on open source energy saving for data centers written up and published.
Thanks to clean url's I was able to make a reasonable effort at search engine optimization and give the page an url that made actually made sense to Google and others.
I knew that Cacti, an open source project for graphing time series data, offered possibilities for data center energy management. It took quite some effort to get Cacti working, so being a reasonable open source citizen I decided to write up what I had learnt as a tutorial for others to follow. The solutions to the issues were all available if you searched diligently, but this brought them together, and addressed some specific issues for Ubuntu.
To my surprise really, I am an engineer of limited capabilities, the pages generated a steady stream of readers and reader appreciation. I take no credit for the stability of the site, 1and1 do a fine job of supporting a Drupal install, and it was clear that the pages were being served reliably.
