In common with almost all other web hosts, they do draw their electric power from the grid, but this is compensated for by purchasing wind energy credits. Actually Green Geeks purchase over 3 units of wind energy units for every 1 unit of conventional energy used!

Other than that, GreenGeeks have adopted a similar and simple pricing model of many other popular web hosts. For a small monthly fee you get the ability to host unlimited hosting and domains. Their shared hosting plans provide everything you expect such as the industry standard Cpanel Control Panel, Fantastico Script Installers and a shared SSL secure server.

The million dollar problem is.. how good is Green Geeks support? Well to be frank I’ve not had to call on them that often. But in a word, its excellent! Green Geeks have adopted a novel approach to technical support. They actually seem to want to help you! Ticket response times are amongst the fastest in the industry and notably in this increasingly global economy, they all speak very good English. Give them a call some time.

Green web hosting wasn’t a very popular topic until a few years back. It’s only recently that this initiative has caught some limelight. When it started, there were a limited number of companies that started the go-green movement. Over the years however, the entire industry has caught up with the pioneers.

Today, such is the craze of green web hosting these days that even some of the bigger providers have had to switch to it. And the good thing is that slowly but steadily, web hosting industry, that is an integral and rather important part of internet industry, is transitioning towards greener and more efficient operations. However, there are still a very few companies that have gone the distance in becoming 100% (to the extent that it’s possible) green hosting providers.

One such company that claims to have achieved the standard of being 100% green host is Green Web Hosting. This organization even asks its employees to telecommute so as to reduce harmful emission caused by their transportation. Similarly, there are other companies too which have decided to go paperless as an expression of their growing concern towards the reducing number of trees from the planet.

Going one step further from not cutting trees, few companies actually come up with a nice and unique idea of committing to plant a new tree for each new customer that they sign up. Likewise, there are some companies that actually offer financial discounts by the means of special packages to the customers who are working for environmental causes with their websites.

There have been, however, a few questions raised by people about the overall performance and reliability of a green web hosting platform. The fact is that it’s now been scientifically proved that renewable energy is just as reliable and effective, if not more, as conventional electricity. This point further gets a practical validity with the fact that most green hosts are running their businesses with absolute ease as their not-so-green peers.

However, despite all the initiatives of green hosts not every customer is supportive of them for obvious reasons. It takes money to go green. And even after hosting companies bear the one-time setup and running expenses, eventually they do pass on the costs to their customers. This is the reason that most green hosts are costlier than traditional hosts.

Nonetheless, the good thing is that companies that are willing to take up that little extra cost in exchange of having a role in saving their planet and as is the law of business if these organizations can somehow sense some moneymaking/saving opportunity by going green that’ll definitely get them going.