Best Green Hosting - 2012 Green Web Hosting Awards

Green hosting becomes a hot topic recently. It somehow results from the fact that between 3 and 4 percent of all electricity (and the associated carbon emissions) used in the world goes to running data centers currently. If energy consumption with web hosting keeps raising at the current rate, by 2020 the industry will be more polluting than the airline industry.

To reduce or reverse the impact of their business on the environment, some web hosting companies start following the Green Hosting Guide and announce to be Green. In below, we will list out those top performers in this category and praise their effort to protect our earth.

Best Green Hosting Awards

Below are our awarded Best Green hosting with the consideration of their contribution or impact to environment, Price Value, Support, Control Panel, and Reliability.

And please refer to How We Select the Hosting Award Winners about the process we select the hosting award winners.

Why They are the Best

GreenGeeks is one of the earliest advocators for green hosting. They deploy energy-efficient servers and data center cooling system, compensate 3 times the amount of energy used by their servers, and do all their best to be Green in business operation, such as telecommuting, less paper-printing, etc, Their commitment to being green has earned them respect throughout the industry.

Beyond green, GreenGeeks also provides excellent customer service and reliable product to their customers. They try to differentiate themselves as the best web hosting solution provider for all kinds of php open source applications, such as Drupal, Joomla, WordPress etc. They are the official web hosting company for the "Drupal for Dummies" book.With all the facts listed in above, there is really no surprise when GreenGeeks is called as "Worlds #1 Green Energy Hosting".

Hostgator is a leading web hosting service providers in the industry. The over four million domains hosted by HostGator make up approximately 1% of the world's Internet traffic. It's critical that such a big web hosting company decide to go Green in 2008.

As a Green Hosting company, HostGator has purchased certified Renewable Energy Credits representing 130% of the electricity used to both power and cool every last one of their shared and reseller servers! They took steps to minimize their environmental impact at the office. They even switched to 36% more efficient servers. Hostgator is really a role model for all the giants in web hosting industry.

iPage is a green hosting powered by 100% wind energy. Their feature rich web hosting solution will give you everything to setup a blog quickly. They really treat their customer well, and give a high quality solution with affordable price. Beside all above, you can get your money at any time if you are not satisfied with their service, this will somehow put your money in safe. iPage is really a good green hosting to start a personal Blog or web site.