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Neno Predragovic — Sun, 04 May 2014 14:10:29 -0000

Usually hosting companies will use either carbon ofseting programs or renewable energy credits for green web hosting. Very few web hosts have direct solar or wind poered data centers.

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A. H. — Thu, 02 Aug 2012 15:26:35 -0000

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A. H. — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 02:43:28 -0000

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minihai95 — Thu, 03 May 2012 23:30:16 -0000

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Christine Coulter — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 10:33:57 -0000

I am having hostpapa.com from last 2.5 years. Perfectly fine for me.

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A. H. — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 13:56:46 -0000

@adrian, unfortunately, due to the competitive nature of the green web hosting sector, there is very little information online that isn't heavily influenced by hosting company sponsorship. I suggest going to the Greenpeace website, as they have a fair amount of information about greenit. @Aaron Handford

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gurvinderpal singh — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 11:43:58 -0000

We at
http://www.mygreenhosting.com/ use renewable energy to directly power our servers (not carbon credits!). This is very different from other "green" web hosting companies that use dirty grid energy and then buy carbon offset tickets. Hosting your website with us makes a real difference in helping to reduce climate change.

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Jonathan Brizio — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 19:01:45 -0000

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greenerlife — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 01:14:50 -0000

Check out www.pandorasweb.com. They've provided great service and I like how on top of their renewable energy usage, they have a tree planting program for every month we are a customer.

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GreenHost — Fri, 28 Jan 2011 10:16:06 -0000

I Would like to recommend Get Green hosting company in South Africa - getting the green movement in the industry spread around the world.

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Talking Rayne — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 03:11:22 -0000

Just don't get sucked into supergreenhosting.com. They claim to be us based, but their support staff is really slow and the service is awful. Not to be negative, but this is a company that I paid a lot of money to transfer my domains to them and a year later I'm finding out that the transfers weren't done properly, that half of my domains are at the old place, that they really weren't paying attention when they did backups for me, and deleted core files. Really sloppy tech support. I hear great things about hostgator.com though

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Greenhostit — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 12:25:16 -0000

We would like to welcome TreeHugger readers to http://www.greenhostit.com green web hosting company in Austin, Texas. Please take a moment to review our hosting options - we offer cPanel, fantastico, free domain registration and all the servers are housed in a green data center in Plano, Texas.

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Research — Fri, 08 Oct 2010 16:53:09 -0000

"All of our servers are 130% wind powered!" Who are you??
I'm not that psychic..

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Roxy — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 01:42:08 -0000

AusTiger Hosting provides 100% Green Web Hosting in Australia and not just relating to their hosting architecture but adopts a whole of business approach including waste reduction, recycling strategies, running on 100% GreenPower renewable energy and offsetting unavoidable impact through Climate Positive.

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Green Host — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 10:20:51 -0000

Another option is FreeGreenHost, where you can get green web hosting for free!

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video contest champ — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 10:08:51 -0000

A green host was definetely one thing I looked for when looking for a new provider for my site.

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Green Web Hosting — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 10:55:09 -0000

Green Web Hosting is available in the UK and is proving very popular he eco-communities because it's a small organisation that provides a fast and reliable service with 99% uptime guranateed and a huge backbone for outstanding performance.

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Sean and Lauren — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 04:45:17 -0000

Our vote goes to Dreamhost for sure.
Carbon-neutral, employee owned, 12+ years of experience, killer backend control (one-click install for Wordpress, Google Mail/Apps integration, Private Server control, etc.), a human touch to CS, and very good prices! Plus they love what they do, and it shows.

We've tried at least over 5 different webhosts in the last 10 years and Dreamhost treats us best.

Just Sayin'
- Sean

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bounceweb promotional code — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 22:02:02 -0000

Green hosting is very vital today in my belief absolutley.

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green geeks coupon — Mon, 26 Apr 2010 15:11:48 -0000

Green Geeks is the best green hosting! They´ve been my provider since 2006 and have never let me down. ;) Handling huge amounts of traffic on my behalf.

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Christian — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 21:29:23 -0000

seems to be a good business. for us, and for the planet

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Web Design Kent — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 06:53:03 -0000

The cheap web hosting should not only be reliable and fast. It should guarantee its uptime, which refers to the percentage of the time your website is accessible and can be seen in the Word Wide Web. The minimum uptime should be 99 %. In fact even 99 % seems to be too low. It really should be 99.5 % or higher. It helps to reach for an example your customers satisfaction, your needs and to enjoy financial freedom.

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Adrian — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 00:40:52 -0000

This post is really disappointing. I mean, you tell us there are many. Duh, we can find that with a simple google search. I'd like a little advice or run down on if some are crap, which provides the best service not just energy efficiency, etc. You really took the lazy approach to this article. Just callin it how it is.

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Dawn Yukus — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 17:35:37 -0000

Lame image. You could have at least gone with a server room or maybe a LEED Certified server building.

"One group buys Renewable Energy Certificates; these insure that the power they use is generated in an ecofriendly manner"

Please do your research before posting an article.

Renewable Energy Certificates (also known as RECs) do not ensure that the power you use is generated in any particular way. RECs basically ensure that a certain (let's say "X") amount of energy produced in an "ecofriendly" manner is generated and put onto the grid. The power that you use may very well be coming from the coal plant in your county while the wind power generated by your purchasing of RECs enters the grid two states away.

Electrical grids need to maintain a certain amount of energy within them. Think of them as a collective pool. There's a lot of flow going on; a lot of energy entering and exiting the collective pool. However, there's really no way of knowing if your X amount of energy used is really coming from any particular place, though it's likely that a large percentage of it is coming from the power source closest to you. Your stating that it comes from a point source, like you did in your post in incorrect.

RECs are great. In no way am I bashing them. I just want it to be made clear what they are. ... Okay. Last clarifying example: Think of the energy you use as a slice of pie (amount X). You take that slice of pie. You consume that slice of pie. But there needs to be a whole pie (the energy grid) when mom comes home. You can replace that missing slice with the same old Wal-Mart brand HFCS & trans-fat laden pie OR you can replace it with some vegan locally-made pie from organic apples & flour from the farmer's market. There's still going to be a whole pie, but a fraction of it will be better for the environment in the end.

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Shawn — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 14:27:24 -0000

All of our servers are 130% wind powered! That's right! 130%!
We're not just neutralizing our environmental impact, we're reversing it!

Our server center has purchased certified Renewable Energy Credits representing 130% of the electricity used to both power and cool every last one of our servers!