Top 5 Green Website Hosting Services
I've recently been researching website hosting services which profess to be green or in other words, buy their power from renewable energy companies or companies who offset their carbon emissions. This blog is not currently hosted with a carbon neutral web hosting service, so it's about time I put my money where my mouth is and practice what I've started preaching. So let me share with you my findings.
One of my current providers offers a pretty unbeatable deal. I won't list all the features but here's a few that had me sold:
- 300gb triffic
- Unlimited domains
- 2500 email addresses
- All for around US$7 per month
Pretty hard to beat. So lets take a look at the green hosting solutions on offer.
It's encouraging to see that there are a growing number of web hosting services who are turning green in an effort to service those of us with a social and environmental conscience. Here's my list of top 10 green website hosting companies:
1. Dreamhost
Location: US
Energy Type: Renewable Energy Certificates (Solar, Hydro, Wind Etc)
Prices: from US$7.95 per month
Features include:
- Unlimited domains
- 148 GB traffic per month
- 3000 email accounts and a heap of other features.
- MySQL Databases (unlimited)
- 24 hour email technical support
- Up to 75 FTP users
2. Green Hosting
Location: Canada
Energy Type: Wind
Prices: from $39 per month
Features:
- 5 MB of server space (extra capacity is available at additional cost)
- unlimited data transfer (also called 'unlimited bandwidth' or 'unlimited hits')
- 5 POP3 vanity email accounts (more available at additional cost)
- unlimited email forwarding
- unlimited email aliases
- web statistics
- Windows or LINUX based hosting
3. Think Host
Location: US
Energy Type: Wind & Solar
Prices: from $5.95 per month
Features:
- 40 GB storage
- 200 GB bandwidth
- MySQL DB
- Multiple Domain capable
- 25 Email accounts
- Web mail client
4. Sustainable Websites
Location: US
Energy Type: Wind
Prices: From $10 per month
Features:
- 1 GB storage
- 10 GB bandwidth
- 25 POP email accounts
- MySQL DB
- 5 add on domains available
- Web Stats
5. ASIO
Location: US
Energy Type: Solar
Prices: from $9.95 per month
Features:
- 250 MB storage
- 5 GB bandwidth
- 250 email accounts
- Linux / Windows hosting
- Spam filtering
- 99.% uptime guarantee
If you're going to be hosting multiple domains then Dreamhost seems to be the best value for money. The details above don't really do them justice as they their green hosting accounts have a huge array of features.
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Nice overview, good to see that there are getting more green webhosters. We host our website with greenhost.nl, a Dutch, green webhost. Maybe interesting for companies based in the Netherlands.
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Nice article of United States and overseas green web hosts, but what about some Australian based hosts. Digital Pacific is an Australian basedgreen web hosting company.
A good article about overseas hosts, however as Evan has pointed out it would be good to list a few Australian hosts. Crucial Paradigm is an Australian based green web hosting company as well. We plant one tree for every new account, regardless of size!
XKO is an Australian Green Hosting Provider. Buying renewable energy from a Green Power Scheme.
We all need to help.
all of the above plans may very well be ‘green’ – but the practise of over-selling (providing an enormous amount of data and other services) with the expectation that less than 1% of your clients will ever take you up on the offer, is anything but sustainable
the buffer these hosting providers need to have to cover the possibility that more than this % of clients uses their service to the full extent means that there is a substantial amount of partially deployed hardware in data centres across the planet
the solution is to sell people what they need, as opposed to ‘selling’ something that you hope they will never use
Hello, you should also take a look at adding/reviewing GreenGeeks green hosting.
I stumbled across this post thinking I would see http://supergreenhosting.com/ straight away, I thought these guys were number 1?! Has anyone else seen sites like http://www.webhostingreport.com/ and http://webhostingverdict.com/ they all say super green is best???
Hi,
Just thought I would let you all know about our own website hosting service – called “GreenServe.com.au” (http://www.greenserve.com.au). This is a competitively-priced hosting service with high-quality servers and realistic traffic and bandwidth … and located in Australia.
BTW: In my opinion, anyone who purports to provide hosting (green or otherwise) that includes 300GB traffic per month for $8 are clearly overselling their services since it’s impossible to wholesale-purchase that amount of actual traffic (at whatever ratio you calculate it) and then on-sell at a profit. They rely on the fact that 99.9999% of users hosting business websites will only use 1-2GB per month (max).
This often factors into what is called the “contention ratio” and crudely means the number of sites and bandwidth hosted from each server. Anything over 100 sites per server (each with a max of 5-10GB per month traffic) usually means overselling and eventually reliability issues.
At GreenServe.com.au, we use our own servers to host our own sites too, so that gives us an extra incentive to provide top quality hosting.
Hope to see you at our site sometime. GreenServe.com.au (Carbon Neutral Australian website hosting).
GreenServe.com.au is another Carbon Neutral Hosting provider in Australia (i.e. Australian Green Hosting).
All power used on servers (and related cooling systems) is fully offset via the purchase of carbon credits.