Greenest Host Solar Powered Web Hosting
The internet creates a tremendous opportunity to go green. Newspapers and magazines can be paperless, commutes to work can take place under one roof and overall a virtual existence can help businesses cut down resource consumption and energy use. But what’s behind the website is another important part of sustainable business. Today’s web hosts are offering more choices for businesses that want a sustainable web power solution.
Greenest Host is one company that is offering 100% solar-powered web hosting. It’s an important distinction to note that this company is running off of renewable energy and not just purchasing Renewable Energy Credits (RECs) or Carbon Offsets. Companies that use RECs or offsets still create pollution through energy use but Greenest Host uses clean energy. The company is situated in sunny San Diego and the data center is powered by 120 solar panels that generate an excess of power, day and night, year round.
Their plans are affordable and offer a wide range of web hosting solutions and support. By giving small and medium businesses a renewable energy solution, Greenest Host estimates that 2000 kWh of “dirty” electricity are saved every year. And they are on a mission to convert the web to clean energy. From their website:
We estimate that hosting converting even one million, of the more than 40 million personal and small business websites created annually, to green power — it would result in annual pollution reductions equivalent to:
- 2,000 passenger cars taken off the road
- 1,070,000 gallons of gasoline not burned
- 21,900 barrels of oil not burned
- 1,200 households not using electricity for a year
- 240,000 tree seedlings grown for 10 years
- 7,900 acres of pine forests storing carbon for one year
- 77 acres of forest preserved from deforestation
- 48 railcars of coal not burned
- 3,200 tons of waste recycled instead of landfilled
Web hosting with renewable energy definitely adds up. You can learn more about this green small business solution at Greenest Host.