Super Green Review
If you’re interested in both reliable web hosting and environmental stewardship, Super Green Hosting is worth a look. The company aims to be energy efficient and carbon neutral for those webmasters and IT-based business that are interested in corporate responsibility in the information age.
Super Green Hosting is an interesting premise and they make some interesting claims. The company’s watchword is sustainability, the idea that to provide an ecologically viable service you have to put back into the environment that which you take and cleanup any mess that you make. This is, of course, simply a good idea.
That said I’m a little suspicious. The company throws around factoids like “the average server produces the same emissions as a 15 mpg SUV.” This isn’t strictly speaking true. It’s possible that to generate the energy needed to power a server using, say, a coal powerplant, there would be comparable CO2 emissions. If, however, you live near a hydro power plant or a wind farm, there is no problem because servers don’t, by themselves, actually produce any emissions.
The company uses new “green dell servers” which do use 20% less energy, which again doesn’t necessarily correspond to 20% CO2, as that depends entirely on where the energy comes from. Still, 20% less energy is a good thing, though it is worth nothing that dell concedes that there is a tradeoff in terms of performance when using their energy-efficient line of servers. The company is also involved in funding tree-planting projects to offset their carbon footprint.
What Super Green really offers is a point of contact for you to negotiate your environmental impact. They’ll help you get involved in planting extra trees and buying green energy certificates. It’s worth noting is that all these green considerations aren’t coming at the cost of jacked up prices. The base hosting package costs $4.95 a month, which is very reasonable.
What your monthly fee gets you is a free domain for life, free domain transfer, the ability to host an unlimited number of domains, unlimited disk space, unlimited data transfer and an unlimited number of email accounts. You can also expect reliable access to a responsive technical support service that is available around the clock, all year round, through e-mail, web-chat and telephone.
Site developers will have access to the company’s free script library, which will help provide templates for complicated server-side web applications that you can integrate into your sites. For those skeptical that all this sounds too good to be true, the company also offers a hearting 30-day money-back guarantee, which means you’re at no risk until the company has proven itself.
Super Green Hosting is a relatively new company that has only been around since 2008, but they already have a client base hosting over a thousand website through their service. Customers generally report reliably and quality service across the board. The only real downside, and for most people with moderate IT needs it won’t even be a downside, is that they only have one hosting package available. If you want good hosting services at an affordable price and want the ability to make your operations green and carbon-neutral, then this company is worth checking out.
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