The internet costs a lot to power: over 400 terawatt-hours a year.
While an individual website’s footprint is small, it all adds up: the internet is responsible for around 3.7% of global greenhouse gas emissions. That’s similar to the amount produced by the global airline industry.
With our green hosting, you can be assured that your websites are stored on servers that avoid contributing to climate change. Sites hosted will pass the Green Web Foundation’s sustainability checks.
A green hosting platform
We use a unique hosting platform, unavailable anywhere else. Central to this is auto scaling technology. This ensures that when a website becomes busy, it can be allocated the resources of the entire hosting platform: multiple servers. Unlike other companies, your website isn’t bound to a single server.
Key to this eco-friendly offering is that it also works in reverse. If a website is no longer busy, it will take up fewer resources: processors, RAM and their associated cooling tech. Less resource mean less electricity used, and ultimately, a reduction in harmful emissions.
Our data centres excel in efficiency: with a PUE (power usage effectiveness) of 1.12. PUE describes how efficiently a data centre uses energy (the lower the better). Most hosts have a PUE of 1.2 or higher. We have a PUE of 1.12. It’s an important figure to note when looking for green hosting.