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A low-tech website means this distinction between front-end and back-end needs to disappear as choices on the front-end necessarily impact what happens on the back-end and vice-versa. Ignoring this connection usually leads to more energy usage.
An increase in traffic for example will have an impact on the amount of energy the server uses, just as a heavy or badly designed website will. Part of [solar.lowtechmagazine.com](solar.lowtechmagazine.com)'s design aims to give the visitor an insight in the amount of power consumed and the potential (un)availability of the page in the coming days, based on current power usage and forecasts of the weather.
An increase in traffic for example will have an impact on the amount of energy the server uses, just as a heavy or badly designed website will. Part of [solar.lowtechmagazine.com](https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com)'s design aims to give the visitor an insight in the amount of power consumed and the potential (un)availability of the page in the coming days, based on current power usage and forecasts of the weather.
The power statistics can actually be queried from the server hardware. More on that [below](#server). To make the statistics available to the web site we wrote [a bash script](https://github.com/lowtechmag/materialserver) that exposes them as JSON in the webroot.
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[^dithering]: See for example <https://web.archive.org/web/20180325055007/https://bisqwit.iki.fi/story/howto/dither/jy/>
[^varia]: Quote from ['What a website can be'](http://varia.zone/en/what-a-website-can-be.html)
[^manual]: For a full description of the board have a look at [the manual](https://www.olimex.com/Products/OLinuXino/A20/A20-OLinuXino-LIME2/resources/A20-OLinuXino-LIME2-UM.pdf)
[^manual]: For a full description of the board have a look at [the manual](https://www.olimex.com/Products/OLinuXino/A20/A20-OLinuXino-LIME2/resources/A20-OLinuXino-LIME2-UM.pdf)
