Choosing Your Green Hosting
A lot of web hosts are boasting about their move towards providing green hosting a lot of them fall short on a number of issues. We’ll show you our top pick for a green web hosting company.
With the growing interest in “Going Green” web hosting companies are buying “Renewable Energy Certificates” or REC’s for short. REC’s are purchased directly from Wind Farms or other Renewable energy producers or from Energy Credit brokers. The electricity is then sold to the power companies and the Web Hosts can claim then buy X amount of Credits usually in a percentage of what power they use. Many green web hosting companies claim they are 100%, or even 130% green by buying enough credits to just cover their usage.
GreenGeeks is a green web hosting company that buys REC’s, but they don’t stop at just buying enough credits to cover their usage, they buy enough REC’s to cover 300% of what they use! Not only do they buy 3 times what they consume, they are also doing much more in their office and in the way they do business in general to be more eco-friendly.
By reconfiguring their servers GreenGeeks is able to keep their servers running more effientially and running cooler, this cuts down on the usage of cooling fans which burn up a lot of power. They also practice recycling in their office and they only print legal and essential documents to conserve paper. Anything that is printed by mistake is returned to the recycle paper area of the office for reuse in any other printing that needs done.
Even the employees kick in and take turns bringing in homemade lunches, saving the waste from fast food places or the gas from “going to lunch”.
GreenGeeks is not only Green, they provide top notch hosting with many sought after features. They have won several Green Hosting awards, including Best Green Host in 2008 and 2009 and have been featured in major magazines such as PC World.
Every account with GreenGeeks receives the following features:
* Energy Efficient Servers
* 300% Green Hosting
* 100% Carbon Neutral Friendly
* Unlimited Web Space
* Unlimited Data Transfer
* Unlimited Email Accounts
* Unlimited MySQL Databases
* Host Unlimited Domains on 1 Account
Whether you’re a business owner or an individual looking for full functionality, GreenGeeks provides you with the perfect web hosting solution.
