Have you ever come across green web hosting while looking out for web hosting service provider? Yes, this is the latest technological up gradation to keep the environment safe. Everyday the potential danger of global warming is spiraling up. To curb this danger “Go Green” is the slogan. People are coming up with new alternatives to fight this situation. Earlier it was limited to the cars and home appliances. Seeing the excessive use of Internet, now efforts are made to make it environmental friendly.
Electricity worth millions of dollars is used everyday to run the servers worldwide which is used to run the websites. This leads to wastage of electricity and also pollution of the environment as harmful carbon dioxide is released during the process. To avoid this mass wastage of electricity, web hosting service providers have now turned to energy production using the renewable and natural resources like solar, wind, biogas, plant or tree or biodegradable waste products.
The Green Web Hosting service providers buy power from the power plants which produce power using natural resources, to say they buy the Renewable Energy Certificates. There are some service providers who set-up their own energy production plant. This saves them from botheration of buying energy from outside sources. They generate power which is sufficient to meet out their requirements.
Though, the services offered by the Green Web Hosting service providers are costlier when compared to the other service providers. But, every extra penny spent is contributed to the betterment of the Mother Nature. The money is used to save our planet from the menace of Global warming.
It is not at all difficult to look out for Green Web Hosting service providers. You can conveniently look out for them in either in the Yellow Pages or on the Internet. Though, the disadvantage of looking out on Yellow Pages is that you don’t get the chance to know about the company whereas on Internet you get the chance to know about the company.
You can read the green web hosting reviews and testimonials and take a fair idea about the green hosting companies. Try and find out which renewable or natural resource is used to run the servers. To check for the support systems you, can send them an inquiry email and wait for their response. The turnaround time and promptness of the reply must be kept in consideration before you actually finalize the service providers.
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I don’t think just buying electricity from providers using renewable energy sources can be called green. I have read about some data centers using the excess heat to warm community house swimming pool and even supply the heat to keep the neighboring homes warm. You know anything that increases energy efficiency should be considered green. I will expect that government makes more subsidies for such business (they did for hybrid cars).
This is great idea, it is just another approach to make earth Green planet, i really appreciate it, and i think people should go for this service no matter how costlier it be.
I would absolutely love to work with a company that is using renewable resources to protect the environment. I am aware of the fact that these services are more expensive, but it reminds me of when you buy organic. Yes, it is more expensive, but it’s good for you and the environment!
Even better, green web hosting providers' prices are comparable to non-green counterparts - Why NOT to host with green web hosting, then?
Dimitri, And yet, they are not necessarily cost more :)
Matt, Agreed - They are probably carbon neutral, but they are not necessarily green, indeed...
wow this really saves them from botheration of buying energy from outside sources. They generate power which is sufficient to meet out their requirements.
Yeah since the earth is undergoing the critical phase we should move our steps more towards green movement, and if such hosting can really make changes, everyone of us should go for it.
Green web hosting is good if it can really help to conserve power and helps to reduce more power pollution, if such things are found to be more effective then we all should go for it.
What a great idea. I would have never even thought to look for green web hosting. I guess it makes sense, there are every other type of green businesses out there. Why not web hosting? Thanks for the heads up.
heard for the first time about Green web hosting, but I am sure if such things can really make change to make earth more Green then we all should go for it.
I see you are interested in global warming and everything else that comes with it. I would just like to share my disappointment at the outcome of the Copenhagen climate council. The summit was supposed to halt temperature rise by cutting greenhouse gases. But after two weeks of negotiating it ended in a weak political accord that does not force any country to reduce emissions and has no legal standing anyway. As a result the world is “one step closer to a humanitarian crisis”, according to the Royal Society. It looks like it is every man for themselves but if your far away neighbors don’t do anything to halt it, what is the point. Here in Scotland, Scottish Hydro has shown the way forward with supplying clean renewable Scottish power from sources like, hydro damns and wind turbine farms but is it all in vein? It could well be.
I like Hostgator, they have great deals and I have also read that a good portion of their power grid is powered by Wind Turbines, which are just a couple of reasons that I have been with them for the past couple of years.
It’d be nice if some of the big hosting companies out there took this initiative and advertised it to site owners. I wasn’t even aware that this existed until right now, but I’m going to look online now and will most likely switch hosting companies. Has anyone here had any issues with any of the companies that were reviewed?
Agreed, I think that whenever possible, green web hosting service providers should be used. Prices are not drastically different so, as long as the required services are provided, as they usually will be, there is little reason not to go with a green web hosting service.
This is the firs time I’ve heard of such type of hosting. I wasn’t aware such a service was available. Now that you have posted this info I will try to switch over to this type of hosting for my sites.
You’re right that the electricity required to run the hosting servers contributes to global CO2 emissions. I think the fuel cell approach that is being tried on a pilot basis by Google and Ebay may prove to be an effective model for hosting companies.
thank you so much for this list of green hosting companies I have a number of clients who have a green policy and wich to keep it 100%
Personally, I go with Ipower and they are now 100% green and have wind power generating all of their servers. In total aggreement when it comes to wasted energy, but this argument (I suppose could be used for anything that consumes electricity). Nonetheless, this movement (if done by all major and minor hosting platforms) could be significant over the long term because of it’s sheer appeal.
Any feedback from you?