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How green and clean is Opera Mini?

By Anna RohlederAnnaMetro. Tuesday, October 18, 2011 9:53:36 AM

iceland, servers, sustainable energy intitative, opera mini, remote data centers

There are a lot of you out there reading this on your phones right now. How do I know? Well, let's take a look at the mystical, magical crystal ball of worldwide Opera Mini browser usage, shall we?

Ooh...

Aaah...

Pretty cool, huh?

Especially when you consider that each point of light streaming out into the universe represents one of the 128 million people who use Opera Mini to pull up about 80 billion - yes, that's billion with a capital B - Web pages every month.

Now imagine this: If all Opera users stood on each other's shoulders, we would touch the moon!

With so many people using Opera around the world, our servers have to execute more than a million HTTP requests per second. But calling up Web pages is only part of their workload - remember that Opera Mini uses remote servers to process and compress Web page data by up to 90%. Sounds like a hot, sweaty job, right?

Fortunately for our servers, they get to hang out in a cool and comfortable environment (even cooler than Norway): Iceland. Want to see where they live? Let this nice man in a suit give you the full tour:

Not only does this keep our servers calm and sweat-free, it's also good for the environment. Opera Mini servers draw on about 60% renewable energy today, and we are looking to boost this number up to 80% in the (near) future.

Just one more reason to love Opera!

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Comments

Aleksandrov FyodorAngolier # Tuesday, October 18, 2011 10:11:01 AM

Я хочу этот Скринсервер!
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I want this screensaver!

KaitenKaitz # Tuesday, October 18, 2011 10:15:46 AM

Pretty cool, indeed!

Patrick O'Reillypaddy2k # Tuesday, October 18, 2011 12:27:34 PM

Let me guess, it's a WebGL page using Websockets for the data?

Diego Schild Smithstekonaza # Tuesday, October 18, 2011 1:59:59 PM

What is the server specifications?

Really nice.

Originally posted by Angolier:

I want this screensaver!

Me too!

praetor87 # Tuesday, October 18, 2011 3:08:13 PM

Tashkent should be the new place of Opera Mini servers.

Javier Alejandro Bastardo Villalobosjbastardov # Tuesday, October 18, 2011 4:01:34 PM

You guys at Opera just make an excellent work, I love to use my Opera Mini on my Android, overall is the best browser and now I see you care for the environment (something I always deducted). So yeah, I'm in love

d4rkn1ght # Tuesday, October 18, 2011 4:33:56 PM

Nimesh nimeshthakkar # Tuesday, October 18, 2011 5:41:49 PM

KarenNerak # Tuesday, October 18, 2011 7:36:41 PM

Deyandyolia # Tuesday, October 18, 2011 8:42:17 PM

well-thought-out DataCenter !

Phillip Robert O'Conner wii4little # Tuesday, October 18, 2011 8:42:33 PM

This Browsers So Addicted,Cooler,and Awesomer.Did i Mention Cooler and Awesomer:D

alexander.zabolotsky # Tuesday, October 18, 2011 8:49:03 PM

I remember when I first used Opera Mini. My second Motorola phone. I fell in love with this browser the moment I saw it. And, unlike so many products opera is still delivering. Vivat Opera mini!

jmartinez # Tuesday, October 18, 2011 9:40:26 PM

opera mini is good. I wondered if anyone(national security agent) can recover packet between
opera mini client and opera server. I heared that opera mini is using encryption method
between them.

In korea, packets are inspected between routers, but it is not illegal. If I can avoid this, opera mini will be better.

Charles SchlossChas4 # Wednesday, October 19, 2011 4:39:33 AM

Very

Chirpie # Wednesday, October 19, 2011 1:54:03 PM

Originally posted by jmartinez:

wondered if anyone(national security agent) can recover packet between opera mini client and opera server. I heared that opera mini is using encryption method between them.

It's using encryption so it's impossible for anyone to spy on you. That's why I always use it when I'm on open wifi networks.

honeymooner # Wednesday, October 19, 2011 3:49:28 PM

That is a nice screensaver.

Tamil # Wednesday, October 19, 2011 4:48:02 PM

Originally posted by AnnaMetro:

our servers have to execute more than a million HTTP requests per second.

suman kumar sahasuman6saha # Wednesday, October 19, 2011 5:13:41 PM

opera mini server runs on 60percent renewable energy.

mekodiehi # Wednesday, October 19, 2011 6:07:34 PM

Originally posted by tekonaza:

What is the server specifications?

Really nice.

Originally posted by Angolier:
I want this screensaver!

Me too!

i want that screan i love itt

Jaygee1 # Thursday, October 20, 2011 2:22:46 AM

opera mini has taken over mobile browers, i'm still looking forward when it'll also taking over web browsing

digitalblaq # Thursday, October 20, 2011 4:55:31 AM

;-) You're right, am using my phone but the problem is always i have to watch these videos i have to close OM^ and use my phone's media player. Why don't ya make a smart media player for Minis???