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So your company is trying to go green, it’s saving energy, using recycled paper or less paper, reducing carbon footprint, etc. But you want to put up a website and putting up a website requires website hosting. Hosting is by no means eco-friendly. Webhosts uses a lot of ENERGY. It needs 24/7 electricity to power up its servers and web servers needs air conditioners to keep it cool and the data stored within it safe. So while your company isn’t actually the one wasting energy, you’re still contributing to the energy being consumed by this domain web hosting companies.

But that doesn’t mean there’s no alternative. There are actually green hosting companies who can do your business web hosting needs. Why are they green? Because they use reuseable energy to power their servers. Most of these web hosting companies use either solar energy or wind energy. Some companies buy clean energy credits from utility companies. Now solar and wind energy are easy to grasp but how does one buy clean energy credits? According to Wikipedia, green energy credits are non-tangible commodities in the US that represents proof that 1 Megawatt hour of electricity was generated from an eligible renewable source. The certificates can be sold and the holder of the clean energy credit can claim that they have purchased renewable energy.

There are a lot of choices when it comes to green webhosting companies. Be sure to do your homework and check the background to make sure that they won’t just up and leave with your money.

With a lot of companies going green, and with the current administration pushing green awareness, there are a lot of incentives for companies that go the green way. And even if there are no incentives, well, a lot of people are trying to be environmentally friendly and it would be an added bonus for your company if you choose to go green even with something as trivial as web hosting.

Posted by sexy_geek at 6:21 AM