Green Hosts
Hosting Providers with some sort of green claim. Currently being added in the order that I find 'em, and no strict approach to what notes I'm taking...
Webarchitects green hosting for Wordpress
- HTTPS via LetsEncrypt
- SSH access
- 30 days' backup
- phpmyadmin
- self-hosted stats
- no adverts
- long-life hardware, including re-use and low-power CPUs
- Backed by Good Energy
- Shared and business hosting
- App installation
- UK-servers backed by E.On RECs
- US-servers backed by Green-e RECs
- PUE 1.2-1.3
- Data centre ISO-14001
- Carbon offset through tree-planting with Ecologi, for orders and staff
- Green Web Foundation certified
- 100% renewable energy, though not much info currently
Eco Web Hosting - not to be confused with Eco Hosting
- UK based
- (Used by Writing Our Legacy)
- Uses tree planting to offset carbon, plus general sustainability awareness
- Also posts monthly updates
- Uses Eden Reforestation Projects to offset customer emissions
- Uses Ecologi to carbon offset employee emissions
- Uses tree-nation for bonus trees
- US based
- VPS
- Wordpress + WooCommerce hosting
- Outsources energy estimation, then buys 3x green energy as RECs (see more info)
- Netherlands based
- VPS
- One-click Wordpress installs
- Managed services
- 24/7 support
- Excellent sustainability report
- NL hosting "100% Dutch Wind Energy", although not certain how this is linked
- Hosting, Wordpress hosting, VPS
- Uses Ecotricity, which uses its profits to build wind and sun mills and claims "vegan" energy
- PUE 1.12
Eco Hosting - not to be confused with Eco Web Hosting
- UK-based
- Offers free migration
- Uses Ecotricity for energy (see Krystal, above)
- Contributes towards reforestation projects using Carbon Managers
- (via Nick_Perks)
CloudFlare are committed to being carbon neutral for the servers they can account for, as well as historic emissions.
- See announcement in July 2021 and associated emissions report
- They also have an option for enabling renewable-friendly cron jobs
- Their neutralisation is carried out by purchase of RECs, using their partner 3Degrees
- "Mythic Beasts uses data centres in the EU that purchase renewable electricity equivalent to 100% of their electricity usage"
- For US-based data centres, about 85% of energy purchased by low-carbon sources (geothermal, wind, hydro), according to 2019 figures
- Environmental policy available - includes preferring more efficient servers and data centres, reusing and recycling hardware, and customer advice.
- All employees work from home. Sponsors local cycling charities and projects.
- PUE varies by data centre, eg: Amsterdam 1.25, London HEX 1.5, Sovereign House 1.5, Cambridge and other London unknown.