Is Green Web Hosting a Scam?
We all know how web host companies use huge servers which are managed in their datacenters. Green web hosting is the process when web hosts use renewable/alternative energy, recycle waste, plant trees, purchase Renewable Energy Certificates and employ other such measures to power their datacenters with which their customers can feel good about their role in saving the planet.
Green web hosting was not a popular term before a decade. But now, it has grown up to be the latest trend among the web hosting companies. The green movement has been adopted by most of the multinational companies as a marketing tool. We all know it is a business trick. It is well worth wondering that if the customers of all these companies changed into a green life style, it will amount to a great contribution by human beings to our mother planet.
The idea became an obsession with the internet industry that even the giants of the industry were left with no option than to switch to it. Even though the pace is slow, we can witness that the web hosts who form a substantial part of the internet industry is moving towards greener and more energy-saving operations. At the same time the ground reality is that it is only a minuscule percentage of the web hosting companies that have moved to a fuller green policy.
Green Web Hosting is one of the few companies that claim to be 100% green. The employees of the company take measures such as telecommute to reduce carbon emission caused by transportation. In the same vein, there are other companies adopting policies like to avoid the use of papers completely so that the number of trees fell for meeting the needs of the paper industry are reduced.
Some companies plant a new tree with the signing up of each new customer. Some companies give discounts for customers who are engaged in environmental activities with their websites.
Some people are not sure about the effectiveness of a green web hosting platform. They question about how far they can perform and can be relied upon. It has been scientifically proved that renewable energy is as effective and reliable, like conventional electricity or even more. The proof for this is the increasing number of web hosting companies that are going green day by day. The output of these companies is not anywhere behind the less-green peers of theirs.
Green web hosting is not approved by all, especially the customers of the companies which adopt this policy. One reason they loathe is because the services are expensive. Companies will bear the expenses in the initial stages. After that the customers will have to take the share of the mission green. Green living demands a lot of money and it is not so easy in this world where people go for short cuts even at the cost of the environment. It is very easy to appreciate a novel idea; but it will take a good deal of effort to embrace it.
One good thing about the green web hosting is that, many entrepreneurs are willing to spend more money for the well ness of planet earth. Even though, there is hidden business motive, it can instill a sense of environmentalism to the customers and others associated with the company.
