5th Nov 2025
We are delighted to share that we have been awarded ethical accreditation from The GOOD Shopping Guide and we are featured in their list of top 200 ethical businesses (in the Technology category). This means that we have also achieved Ethical Innovator status, demonstrating our commitment to having a positive impact in the The GOOD Shopping Guide's ethical criteria categories, Environment, Animals, People.
About the top 200 list, The Good Shopping Guide says:
"We are proud to endorse these truly ethical businesses as some of the most ethical companies and brands in the world – they are all testament to the power businesses can have to affect positive change."
Our ethical status was independently verified by The GOOD Shopping Guide's research team and we are encouraged that they particularly recognise the core ethos of our business and our contribution to a greener internet via our website hosting, powered 100% by renewable electricity. They also highlighted our work with charities, non-profits and ethical brands to deliver sustainable and accessible websites with a purpose.
The GOOD Shopping Guide have written more about our ethically accredited website design and hosting in their latest news.
17th Oct 2025
From the content we consume and share, to the tools we use and the digital debris we accumulate, every action online has an environmental impact.
Although our online world seems intangible, it translates directly to physical resources and energy and whilst we already make greener choices in other areas of our businesses, such as packaging, travel and equipment, this may not automatically follow through to our work online.
All of the content we consume and publish is saved on web servers in data centres around the world. The more online content that exists and is shared, the more resources are needed to keep and ‘serve’ the data online. These resources are physical: land, building materials, hardware, water. Plus lots of energy!
Huge amounts of energy is needed because data centres run 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. As a result they get very hot and need constant cooling.
Added bonus: Search engines favour lighter, faster websites.
Added bonus: Clearing out your storage and e-mails creates less inbox overwhelm
Added bonus: Using alternatives to video can help those living in digital poverty (poor connection speeds and sharing devices)
Digital sustainability isn’t about abandoning the internet. It’s about using it in a conscious way.
3rd Sep 2025
What do you look for in a web hosting partner? Like any relationship, it’s important to notice those green flags that indicate you’ll have a positive experience.
Here are some real-life messages that we’ve received from our clients. They show those green flags perfectly:
Customers stay with them
“The best part of hosting with you was your help with staging my site way back when… now it has had 1000s views and I’m still so happy with your service.”
Besma – Curiously Conscious
Customers endorse them
“I've been using Green Hosting for several years now and always recommend it to friends and contacts who are looking for an environmentally friendly web hosting platform.”
Melissa – The Ocean Writer
Customers return to them
“As an ethical sales agency and community, we want to work with ethical suppliers so when we discovered Green Hosting four years ago we were delighted. When we launched a new sales community hub recently we went no further than to secure our second hosting package with Green Hosting.”
Corinne – Ethical Sales
Your values align
“Just to stay how much we appreciate having an ethical provider hosting our web site at green-action-elt.uk. It’s great to know our web site sits on ethical foundations while we get on with our work promoting environmental sustainability in English Language Teaching.”
Chris – Green Action ELT
Cost effective services
“The price for the hosting is brilliant and I'm glad that the company supports organisations doing work to make the world a better place. I couldn't recommend their services more highly.”
Amy – Sustainable and Social
Pop over to our Clients page to see more positive testimonials ...
16th Jul 2025
Every so often, web hosting clients contact us at the end of their tether. They’ve either hired someone to create their website or made it themselves. At first it seemed fine but a year or so down the line, they’re having problems. Those problems usually relate to the speed and stability of their website. It’s slow to load or ‘falls over’ at the click of a link or they’re seeing warning messages about their site’s poor health.
Not being able to use your website and not having a seemingly straightforward fix is extremely frustrating and concerning. And, aside from the worry and disruption to the website owner, there are environmental and security implications for the website too.
After trying to get the issue resolved by themselves or by their designer (and sometimes being told that the hosting is the problem. Spoiler alert: It’s not the hosting!) the client may ask us if we can help.
A quick assessment often brings up 3 problems would have been incredibly easy to build into the management of the website from the start. Unravelling the mess they create later is time-consuming and can be costly:
Setting these three habits in place at the start of your website's life can keep it cleaner and healthier much longer into the future.
19th Jun 2025
By choosing Green Hosting, our clients have taken an essential step in their digital lives towards reducing their negative environmental impact. Using services like ours, which are powered by renewable energy, means that their website is not contributing to carbon emissions as fossil fuel powered web hosting does. But what about other aspects of our lives?
When we talk about sustainability, we often focus on physical waste, energy-efficient devices or greener transportation. However, as we live increasingly in the digital world, we need to give our online habits more attention.
While choosing a green web host is a great starting point, true digital sustainability goes much deeper. From video consumption to email overload, every online action has a carbon cost. Here are several impactful ways to make your digital life more sustainable, beyond hosting.
Video is great, it is a really useful way of communicating in an engaging, accessible and human way. Video content is also the biggest data guzzler on the internet. Not taking into account video streaming for entertainment, we’ll focus on work-based video use here, this still requires significant server power and energy, much of it still sourced from fossil fuels.
What you can do:
Each social media post, in whatever form, is stored on servers that consume energy around the clock. When billions of users post constantly, the cumulative environmental cost adds up fast.
To avoid using valuable resources and creating digital waste, consider these things before posting:
Quality over quantity not only helps the environment, it can lead to more meaningful engagement, too.
Inefficient websites packed with bloated scripts, oversized images and unnecessary video or animations use more hosting bandwidth and disk space, increasing load on both the servers and user devices as well as higher power demands on data centres.
Here are some sustainable site design tips:
Remember that a faster, leaner website isn’t just better for the planet it’s better for your users. It is vital to remember that we are designing for humans. Let’s make sure our web visitors are not left waiting for slow loading pages and their data isn’t being used up by downloading excessive file sizes.
Inbox overload isn’t just a mental clutter, it’s an environmental one too. Each email stored translates to the use of physical space and electricity, including the millions of unnecessary marketing emails we receive daily.
Simple steps to clean up:
It might feel like a daunting task if e-mails have built up over time but clearing that space will help it all become more manageable in the future.
Some online services and tools are built with sustainability in mind. Whether it’s a CMS plugin that optimizes performance or a platform powered by renewable energy, choosing eco-conscious technology providers amplifies your impact.
Look for:
Choosing technology carefully, with environmental goals in mind is a powerful way to align your digital life with your values.
Digital sustainability isn’t about abandoning the internet but it is about using it in a smarter way. From the content we consume and share, to the tools we use and the digital debris we accumulate, every action online has an environmental impact.
Going beyond choosing green hosting to embrace broader digital responsibility is great for the planet as well as your productivity, online presence and how you can make a difference in a meaningful way.
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