Web Hosting Reviews from 0z.co.uk

Living and working “online” in a zero-paper environment is one way to become green friendly. However this lifestyle can hardly described as being complete if your web servers continue to pump out CO₂ emissions around the clock, 24/7/365?

By choosing a hosting company from this page, you can both have a host that is not only reliable, but who is also positively contributing to reducing global warming. We have also looked for hosts that, offer the same low prices as non green hosts!

We have been flexible over how we define a “green host.” Some for example generate their electricity from Wind Turbines and Solar Panels. Given the concentration of datacenters around major communications hubs in big cities this is not as yet always a practical proposition, so we have also included hosts, that have carbon neutral or carbon offsetting schemes in place and who also donate to “green” charities and organisations.

1&1 Web Hosting:

1and1 surprised the industry by becoming the first global web hosting company to “go green” thus saving 30,000 tons of CO2 per year. 1&1 now utilise wind, water and solar power in accordance with the Renewable Energy Certification System (RECS). 1and1 Internet currently run 40,000 servers which consume between 50 and 60 GWh per year. Hence, by switching to environmentally friendly energy they are making a significant contribution to environmental protection. Additionally two of 1&1’s large office buildings (in Karlsruhe, Germany) with 1,300 employees are now being supplied with “renewable energy.”

“We not only desire clean energy, but we also want to use as little energy as possible. Thus, for example, for many years we have been using highly efficient power supplies with less than 20 per cent heat loss and omit any unnecessary components within our servers. As soon as the outside temperature falls below 10 degrees, we cool our data centre using open-air coolers and that works without energy-eating compressors”. Achim Weiss - 1&1 Internet.