Think of your web hosting as the home for your website.

When you sign up for a web hosting service, you are essentially renting space on a physical server where you can store all the files and data necessary for your website to function properly.

Green, sustainable, or eco-friendly web hosting offers the same features as any other hosting package but with the crucial difference that steps are taken to reduce the environmental impact of your website.

A green web hosting company uses renewable energy to power its servers. Instead of relying on fossil fuels, they generate electricity from sources such as wind, solar, and water.

Did you know that the internet, specifically the servers that host websites, accounts for 2% of global carbon emissions? This is as much as the airline industry produces. Moreover, data center pollution is expected to grow to 14% by 2040.

As the scale of the internet and its infrastructure grows, we can no longer ignore these environmental impacts.

When building a website, please choose a green web host or switch to one. This simple decision can have a significant impact on reducing carbon emissions. We personally recommend GreenGeeks for their exceptional service and 24/7 support.

ypically, websites are hosted/stored on huge servers in massive data centres, which demand a great deal of energy use. The servers run 24/7 and must operate in a cooled environment to run properly. That cooling also uses vast amounts of energy.

To generate most of this electricity, fossil fuels like coal and gas are being burned, making the internet a dirty polluting, carbon-emitting beast.

Hosting renewable energy makes a huge difference in comparison to electricity from other sources. According to current studies, standard electricity emits 475g CO2e/kWh and electricity from renewable resources emits only 33.4g CO2e/kWh.

Choosing a green web hosting that produces electricity from a sustainable method not only will reduce the general carbon emissions on this planet but will make you directly support companies with a strong mission to do good to this world.

In 2018 statistics showed that if the internet was a country it would be the 7th worst polluter in the entire world. The internet alone was responsible then for 3.7% of the CO2 emissions measured globally and will double by 2025.

Switching to a green Hosting Provider is free of charge, easy and comes with lots of perks.

If you need assistance in switching to Sustainable Web hosting, to make your website a little “greener”, or to learn more about the tools you can use, get in touch with me today.

We want to do good and we want it to do now.