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[uggbuttonboots1]

What's green hosting??

[CaroNet-Hesham]

Environmentally friendly hosting, Datacentres using renewable energy sources and servers that are low on electric consumption

[mydotcombuddy]

pollution less or at least environment frndly hosting

[patrick101]

Some hosting companies plant a number of trees each time they get a new account sign up.

[NetED]

Another way of looking at it is simply energy efficiency. The great thing about "green hosting" is that when a data center designs the infrastructure to be energy efficient it both reduces its carbon footprint as well as reducing operating cost. In the long run this translates to saving green by going green.

[Disrelation]

Green Hosting is environment friendly, now how cool is that? It helps lower pollution.

[vordermann]

I dread to think about the power consumption of some of the larger datacentres. I guess we should all be doing our bit to host with companies that are using green technologies.

[HostNeighbor]

We have invested a large sum of money to go "green". At first it has cost us a lot of money but in the long run, it will begin to pay for itself and besides, we are helping save this dying planet.

Another way we have gone green is because we only use the newest technology in our servers, we donate used equipment to charities, schools and the like.

We are in the process of building a datacenter to go green but each module will cost a whopping $865,000. That too will be well worth it as opposed to places like The Planet that consume a lot of resources.

Google and Walmart are purchasing the type of module we are looking into so there is a future in going green even for datacenters.


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[SevenL_Leon]

Green hosting is definitely revolutionary.
I think it is important for us to conserve energy and reduce our carbon footprints. Go green and save our future generations and descendants.

[The Spider]

This means NEW servers, right?

Energy is purchased off the grid with a % of "green" energy.

But really GREEN HOSTING just means using new servers that are energy efficient, as compared to older one.

Kinda like an old air conditioning system, refrigerator or TV.

Am I missing something?

[host4more]

green hosting may also mean that they know how to manage their business, their servers, there is no waste in useless software, focus on quality and in general avoid waste, money, resources. This ultimately means lower prices for you, efficiency, top server uptimes.

[Anynaseo]

Green hosting as I know it is unmanaged and as energy efficient as possible.
There is a tendency for some eco cloud and vps technology but is rather complicated. The paradox is this stuff is that the extra pollution from this energy efficient servers comes from the transport and the production line. So this mean that a eco server will compensate the CO2 footprint in around 3-5 years depending on performance, then it will get obsolete and be replaced.
The eco part is tricky and highly complicated. To make a comparrison the guys on top gear made a outstanding descovery that is 100% real. A landrover made in great britain has a smaller CO2 footprint for 300.000 miles than a prius made in japan and driven in great britain plus the prius has batteries very dangerous to the enviroment.
So, to be on topic, the eco servers must be seen as a whole starting with the production line rather than the actual power consumption on the server.

[Rob Vanderpool]

With the backing of a respectable green web host, you can feel good about your role in saving the earth, since green web hosts use alternative / renewable energy, plant trees, recycling waste and purchase RECs to power their datacenters.

[ksusak]

Thanks for all of this! Didn't want to pollute the forums with newbie questions, so it's great to find this info so easily.

[jawwad kalia]

Eviornmental friendly, datacenters using solar powers and planting trees etc.