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100% Renewable Energy Web Hosting recommendations

I'm looking for personal recommendations for a web hosting company that runs its servers on 100% renewable energy (e.g. solar power, wind power).

That is, not just a carbon-neutral, carbon trading scheme, where trees are planted but the electricity is not renewable.

They must also be an excellent web hosting company - fast, stable, reliable hosting service with fantastic customer support.

I'm looking for something like a reseller account where I can distribute a monthly chunk of bandwidth and disk space between an arbitrary number of domains.

Plesk control panel preferred over cPanel - but willing to compromise... 

I've looked at ThinkHost, but seen mixed reviews...(?) 


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There are a few companies that are doing that, which is cool and more then I expected to find. I'm going to try and see what the company I'm on is doing about this and if they are not making the effort, I might move.

I found a couple more you might want to consider:

http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2199470/europe-second-largest-web-host

http://www.gogreenhosting.com/

 
Posted 2007-10-04T16:01:19Z
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Thanks Lilly!
I have discovered a couple of things in the last few days...

Firstly, there is currently not a single UK-based renewable energy hosting company (that is,where the actual servers are based in the UK and the energy they use is renewable).

I also discovered that http://aiso.net is a very popular and highly regarded green hosting company. They run their servers from their own solar panels in the Californian desert and have a reliable record over 10 years. Many other companies offering 'solar hosting' on the Web are actually resellers of AISO. 
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UPDATE:

I found that I was wrong. There is one UK datacentre that runs from 100% renewable energy (wind power from Ecotricity). I'm now hosting the Dharmafly servers there. Some info:

http://dharmafly.com/blog/its-getting-windy-in-here
Posted 2008-07-20T23:15:38Z
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ThinkHost is definitely worth considering as they are a true 100% green web host.

They do have mixed reviews, about 50% good the other 50% bad but if you are that worried about going green with web hosting then...
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