How Green Is Hostgator?

The gator host is 130% green hosting!

As one of the biggest hosting providers in the world, Hostgator truly understand the importance of fulfilling their obligation to protect our planet earth. With that said, all the reseller and shared hosting servers in Hostgator are powered by wind power.

Here are some short explanations if “Green Hosting” and “Wind Power” are new terms to you. When a hosting provider is labeled as “green hosting”, this means the company is operating their business using green energy; while green energy, as known as renewable energy, can come from different sources like solar power, biomass, hydro power, wind power and etc. So in this case where Hostgator is a wind-powered hosting company, Hostgator powers their hosting servers and other electrical appliances using wind power.

Why Green Hosting?

As climate change is threatening our mother earth, one of the ways to save her is to reduce carbon emissions. For your information a very large portion of carbon emissions on earth come from electricity generation by fossil. Therefore if we stop burning fossil to generate electricity we can reduce emitting carbon in a large scale.

Thus it is impressive that Hostgator has done such measure in operating their business. Not only they have neutralized their energy impact on the environment they are actually reversing it because they are 130% wind-powered. Perhaps you may be a little confused on this. Let me explain. So what Hsotgator does is not harvesting wind power themselves. Instead, they engage some engineering companies to evaluate their electricity usage each year in kWh. Then they purchase 130% of the number of kWh used from the wind farm and feed the kWh back in to the national grid. By doing that, Hostgator has directly reduced the fossil electricity needed nationwide.

Here are some illustrations on how much kWh has been fed back in to the national grid by Hostgator:-

1. Removing 444 cars from the road for a year, or
2. Powering 321 homes with clean energy for a year, or
3. Saving 5,654 barrels of oil, or
4. Protecting 551 acres of forest for a year

Are you impressive on their effort? At least I do. Perhaps you should have a closer look at Hostgator the green hosting.