Green web hosting – How to start a green hosting company

Environment concern is not a fad that would fade any more. A lot of consumers are demanding that their hosting company are socially responsible if not they will vote with their wallets and move their hosting elsewhere. Data centres are notoriously power hungry. Servers tends to consume a lot of electricity because they are running day and night. Temperature in the data centre needs to be kept at a cool constant temperature so its no surprise that data centres are said to consume 4% of the electricity used in the world.

Web hosting companies and data centres that has switched to powering their operation in ecofriendly manner tends to use some of the following me methods:

• Renewable Energy Certificates -  This method of making a web hosting company green certified that the power used by the host is generated in eco-friendly way, it could be wind power, solar energy or geothermal energy.
• In House Power Generation – Data centre and hosting company in this category generates their own energy from renewal sources directly.
• Carbon Offsetting -  Hosting companies and data centre that uses carbon offsetting use the regular energy to power their company but they work out their operations carbon footprint and offset it by planting tree, financing projects that removes the equivalent amount of CO2 they emit from the atmosphere.
• Green Initiatives – Some hosting companies base their green credentials on having a paperless office, having their staff telecommute and other basic green steps that make them more socially responsible than their competition.

The cost making an hosting company green is said to add an overhead of up to 31% more than hosting companies that do not have green initiatives. Most green hosting companies do not pass this cost on to their customer to ensure they are competitive.

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