Green Hosting

Green hosting is a traditional hosting solution, but the energy used in green web hosting is gathered from Eco-friendly sources, thus it doesn’t impact negatively on the environment. Because renewable energy is collected from sunlight, wind, rivers, and rain. Whichever web hosting service you are using besides green web hosting, it’s directly impacting the environment negatively, without you having any idea.

Green hosting is rapidly gaining market share over other hosting providers as it is currently the best web hosting for reducing environmental impact. Green web hosting utilizes green renewable energy to save the environment as well as provide excellent hosting service at the same time.

Impacts of non-green hosting

The impacts of global warming are indisputable. And humans are playing their role in speeding up its effects. There are roughly three million hosting centers across the USA, which utilize 2% of the total energy used by America. Annually, a traditional server host ejects more carbon dioxide into the environment than a car. The existence of the internet creates a lot of pollution and it is estimated that the energy required to host the entire internet, creates pollution equivalent to the airline industry. By utilizing energy gathered from burning coal, nuclear power plants, and fossil fuels, which are toxic to the environment. Most host providers rely on generators that run on fossil fuels.

Benefits of green hosting

While a traditional server produces 630 kilograms of carbon dioxide and consumes 7,446 kWh per year. It is a good practice to use renewable energy for green hosting which results in zero carbon dioxide to be ejected into the environment. Our eco-friendly measures include, using energy-saving appliances, carbon-negative settings, and planting trees. Our green web hosting service uses renewable energy, to protect the environment as well as provides excellent quality, 24/7 hosting service for our customers. Our main initiative is to take part for a greener planet.

Growth of the internet

Since its creation in 1983, the Internet has been growing rapidly and its growth hasn’t stopped till now. From 1983 to 1985 there were 100 available networks on the internet, which have grown to 5,000 worldwide networks in 1991, spread over 36 countries hosting 700,000 computers, facilitating over 4,000,000 people. In the modern era, key statistics show that now there are more people in the world which use the internet than the ones who don’t. Facebook has over 2.2 billion active users as a single social media platform, it shows the versatility of the internet. These figures clearly show the huge number of websites, that are saved on these hosting services around the world, which mostly doesn’t use renewable energy and how much volume of carbon dioxide they emit into the atmosphere.

Green Responsibility

As any industry, the hosting community should be responsible for reducing the burden on the environment. We need to make sure both our energy sources and infrastructure (hardware and software) are designed to be sustainable and eco-friendly. HostDive takes this responsibility very seriously and we make sure to adopt these technologies. However, it's also important not to raise prices for our customers. It's a careful balance between responsibility to the environment and our clients' wallets. Here are some of the steps HostDive takes in order to fulfill our 'green' obligations:

Energy-saving: We try to save energy by not running unused nodes or hardware. An empty server is the worst offender when it comes to unutilised energy and resources.

Using full capacity: Running servers are always utilized as fully as reasonably possible to avoid energy waste.

Green Datacenters: We make sure the datacenters we use don't utilize dirty energy such as coal and oil.

Green upstream providers: We only support hardware and software developers who make an effort in our fight for a greener planet.

HostDive is always up to the task for innovating in the green shared web hosting space. It is innovation that will be the key to a sustainable future!