Green hosting is our ticket to a more natural and healthy environment. Of course, it is! This is a famous statement that we hear nowadays in the hosting industry. Everybody wants to claim themselves as a green host. Why? Being a green host will make people consider them a noble host, doing well for a better living and environment. However, do you think they are all really a green host? To tell you the truth, there are a few types of hosts calling themselves ‘green’.
Using Wind Power and Solar Energy
The first type of green host is those that build data centers and have servers with wind power and solar energy. They run servers with renewable energy. Also, their offices and servers use biogas, solar, wind, or geothermal energy and they also produce their own energy in-house. Even further, some hosts have acquired Renewable Energy Certificates, ensuring they run eco-friendly power for their hosting business. For this one, we can really consider them as a good green host as they really use renewable energy to ensure that they keep the environment safe. Moreover, of course, that means good green hosting costs more expensively than regular hosting.
Tree Planting
However, not all hosts claim themselves as green hosts doing those stuff as it is costly. The second type I will share with you now is those preferring to plant more trees to be considered “greenâ€. Planting a tree to offset your carbon use sounds great; however, is there a real value out of it? Of course, it is much cheaper and there is a real value somehow. I call it somehow as growing trees are not in an instance. However, it takes years or decades to really get a good effect. For hosts choosing this way, it seems that they just take the easiest and cheapest way for their own credibility.
My Point?
We are not saying that any of them is a bad idea. On the contrary, I am touched that any of us prefer to show our care to the environment where we live now and later. However, it will be very necessary that we also try to analyze whether they really do good for a better living or just try to get credibility for their own business by taking the simplest way only for them. Just look and feel.
