Green Hosting – Another kind of Web Hosting

Posted on July 23, 2008 at 12:59 PM

What is green hosting? I have seen it in some articles and forums. But I don't understand what it means? So I researched it online. Green Hosting is an eco- friendly web hosting service. It caters to people who are concerned about the harmful effects that web hosting have in the environment.

They claim that web hosting harm our environment... The statistics gathered tells us that. the electricity consumed by data centers (where servers are stored) globally is equivalent to the production of 14 coal fired 1,000-megawatt power plants? You know how much that is? It is enough to power one large city. Traditional coal fired electricity generation creates around 1970 pounds of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere per megawatt hour. That is how much impact the hosting industry have on global warming.

Green hosting is powered by wind, solar and other forms of renewable energy, green web hosting reduces the impact of greenhouse gas upon the Earth.

But if you still want to use regular web hosting services, you could look into our list of reliable web hosting companies.