Go Green With Your Web Hosting

The effects of global warming is already very obvious to everyone and with this there is a growing need to become environment friendly by reducing our carbon foot print. There are a number of companies in the world that are doing all their efforts to reduce their carbon emission by patronizing the use of recycled materials and planting new trees.

Did you k now that the internet is not green especially the web hosting industry? In fact studies show that the web hosting industry used as much energy to power their servers as the equivalent of 14 major power plants. By 2020 the web hosting industry will be as big of a polluter as the airline industry! Read more about this study here : http://www.greendatacenterinfo.com/2008/05/06/data-centers-big-polluters-says-study/

Just to give you an overview an average web server produces the same emissions as a 15 mpg SUV let alone the data centre where the server is located which consumes on average as much electricity as 30,000 households.

Well according to Technoratti there are 112.8 million blogs in the world and I bet most of them are not using a green web host yet.  A website/blog on average produces around 12½ Tonnes of CO2 each year.  Each year your PC produces half a tonNe, your car produces 5 tonnes, and your home produces 6½ tonnes – this means on average each person is responsible for 12 tonnes of the CO2 that is produced each year!  If all these blogs use a green web hosting we can definitely help save the earth!

There are webhosting companies out there committed to the environment and provide the greenest service in the green web hosting market. Super Green Hosing and Green Geeks are two of the green web hosting providers recommended by Web Hosting Geeks.  You can choose a plan from $3.95 to $6.95 a month.

Super Green boast of using a super reliable “Green” Dell server that produces 20% less CO2 than the average server and they are involved in tree planting projects. If you want to go a step further and reverse the affects of global warming your kind generosity is welcomed by our special green addons that will allow you to plant more trees, purchase green energy certificates for your website and much much more. Super Green Hosting provides users with Green badges for to display on your website and show you really care about the impact your website has on the environment.

Green Geeks boast using  wind energy credits for the energy they consume for the power grid they use. According to them they replace, with wind power, 3 times the amount of energy used by their servers, “so if we pull 1X of power from the grid we purchase enough wind energy credits to put back into the grid 3X of power having been produced by wind power.”  Their company is also implementing environmental friendly ways to lessen their carbon emission one of them is allowing their employees to telecommute.