In these eco-aware times sustainability can be a real selling issue, and Chicago-based provider Greengeeks offers the very greenest of green hosting. With awards and testimonials from the American Lung Association and the EPA draped across their site, it is hard to miss their biggest selling point. The company actually produces three times the power from wind energy than it actually uses, so sends twice the power used back to the grid. That’s green!
Moreover, as world governments start to acknowledge and act on eco-concerns, this kind of hosting provider could well be more future-proof in terms of power use and penalties.
By 2005 the web hosting industry was gobbling the power equivalent of the output of 14 major power stations, and by 2020 it is set become as big a polluter as the airline industry.
However, customers can be green and growing too, as a Greengeeks coupon can ease your way to a website run for better-than-sustainability on latest generation servers in a climate controlled data center.
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