Green Web Hosting

What is Green Web Hosting?

Green Web Hosting is a relatively new flow of Web Hosting. You can see that in many industries companies are becoming more responsible, socially and environmentally as well. Using a green hosting package aims to reduce energy consumption and carbon-dioxide emission, and to support causes like planting trees and recycling.

Why is this important in hosting? Because servers use electricity, and they use it ally the time. A server is turned on all the times, 24 hours a day. By using renewable energy, a significant amount of energy can be saved, and the Earth will not be polluted with that much carbon dioxide.

Some companies are able to generate renewable energy on their own, others buy green energy certificates. This means they buy from a supplier who generates the green energy and sells it. There are a couple ways of generating green energy: solar energy, wind turbines or bio gas to tell a few. They sometimes buy carbon offsets. Carbon offset is a financial instrument aimed at the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions. In this case a company doesn’t actually use green energy, but through carbon offset they balance their carbon emission to zero or positive. For some people it may seem fishy to do this, but hey, not all companies can build their own wind farm.

An other beneficial effect of their activities is they encourage organizations to use green energy – first in web hosting, then who knows… They sometimes have special offers for non-profit organizations.

Does Green Web Hosting cost more? Check the prices at our website. You can see, that they actually cost less on average. And if they were a little more expensive, I would still pay that few extra bucks to feel that I am living responsibly.