Green Web Hosting, such as the services provided by Ecenica, is often an important reason for choosing a web hosting provider. At Ecenica we’re committed to providing high quality, affordable Green Web Hosting through the use of renewable energy sources, energy efficient servers and green business practices to reduce the digital carbon footprint of web hosting. If you’re looking switch please see our range of green web hosting plans.
What Is Green Web Hosting?
Green web hosting, also known as eco-friendly web hosting, or carbon-neutral hosting, is a commitment to providing more sustainable web hosting services which consume less energy, use renewable energy sources, and produce less carbon footprint than traditional web hosting services.
What is the environmental impact of web hosting?
Some estimates suggest the Internet is responsible for 3.7% of global emissions. A carbon footprint greater than the aviation industry. Some estimates even suggest Internet emissions will double by 2025.
Web servers powering websites and email consume power and produce heat which in turn requires energy to run cooling systems. Traditional energy production relies on the burning of fossil fuels which is the main source of carbon emissions.
Green Hosting matters as it is a commitment to reducing the carbon emissions ensuring we can reduce the footprint of hosting a website and email.
What are the benefits of Ecenica Green Web Hosting?
Ecenica green web hosting offers high quality web hosting services which have minimal impact on our environment. We achieve this through the following ways:
Eco-friendly Datacenter
The energy powering our datacenter is 100% powered by renewable resources, sources being wind, sun and tidal power.
Our datacenter has a PUE (Power Usage Effectiveness) rating of 1.2 which is considered “green”. PUE is a good indicator of sustainability as lower numbers represent lower energy consumption. An average data center has a PUE rating of 1.7 to 2.0.
We’re able to achieve such efficient energy usage without compromising on server uptime/performance though green technologies like adiabatic cooling. Which minimise the energy and resources used to cool our servers.
Low-energy Web Servers
We’ve hand built our servers to be green, using the very latest ultra low power enterprise components such as CPUs, memory and latest SSD NVMe storage. We’re a heavy user of virtualization and have used virtualization since the early days to improve server efficiency by running multiple servers on a single, low energy server. This means our server ecosystem as a whole uses far less power than a traditional server setup.
Sustainable Business
We take a ‘green’ low energy approach to our day-to-day business practices as well. Our team has always looked to ways to reduce their energy consumption, ‘go green’ and reduce their impact on the planet. Where possible we encourage our teams to work from home, reducing unnecessary commutes which produce pollution. We recycle our phones, tablets and computers and swap to new energy efficient alternatives when the opportunity arrives.
100% Electric Company Car Fleet
Electric cars offer many environmental benefits over petrol and diesel cars. We’ve recently taken delivery of our first electric car and we’re committed to swapping all our staff to electric company cars.
Green Partners
We rely on a wide range of trusted partners to deliver our high-quality services to our customer. From our server chassis and network switch manufacturers to our SSL certificate provider and Stripe, our secure payment processor. We’re working towards all our suppliers being green and showing they have the same commitment to reducing their carbon footprint as we do.
Local Green Initiatives
When talking about climate change it’s easy to ignore the impact of web hosting on the local level. We’re always working hard to reduce our local carbon footprint and reduce our impact on our local friends and partners. We also work with local schools to help educate children about green web hosting and measures they can take to reduce their own digital carbon-foot print.
How Green Web Hosting Benefits your customers, users and clients
You can be assured by hosting your website and email with Ecenica, you and your users are helping the environment through using a service which is committed to a low carbon footprint.
You can display a badge or banner on your website showing your commitment and that you care about the planet.
Committed to Net Zero by 2030
How can I get Green Hosting?
All our WordPress Hosting, Cloud Hosting, Cloud VPS Servers, email and domain services are low-energy, green hosting services.
As an Ecenica customer you’ve already got green web hosting and you can continue using your Ecenica service as normal.
To swap your website to Ecenica Green Hosting simply sign up online. We provide a Free Website Migration service with select billing plans, making transferring to Ecenica green web hosting easy.
