12th Jan 2024
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Switching your website to Green Hosting is one really simple way that you can make your brand, organisation or project more responsible to people and our planet.
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18th Dec 2023
Our office is closed from 5pm on Wednesday 20th December 2023 and until 9am Wednesday 3rd January 2024
If you have any urgent support queries during that time, please use our support helpdesk. For any other non-urgent support or general queries we will be in touch once we return in the New Year.
Wishing you all a happy, healthy and peaceful festive time and a prosperous 2024!
A huge thank you to all of our clients and colleagues for your support this year and always. We look forward to working with you next year and beyond!
8th Dec 2023
Green Hosting is powered 100% by renewable energy and has been for many years. A recent upgrade also means that we provide the very best in web hosting energy efficiency too.
Why is it important for renewable energy to be used efficiently?You might be wondering, if we only use 100% renewable sources (wind, sun, sea) to power our servers and not fossil fuels, why is energy efficiency so important?
We feel that it’s not just important, it is vital. Only using as much power as you need, reducing waste and most of all designing systems that require less power reduces the demand on the precious natural resources and the infrastructure that supplies it. This in turn can allow for more widespread use and potentially lower future energy costs. For us, it always comes back to being part of a wider movement for positive change, for people and the planet.
The data centre that houses the Green Hosting servers have achieved a Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) of 1.05, making it one of the most efficient data centres in the world. Until recently, we could boast the excellent PUE of 1.2 but 1.05 is so much better!
This level of efficiency is achieved due to the data centre’s design and build. Firstly, to keep the very hot servers cool, it employs ‘evaporative cooling’ which works by running air and water via EcoCooling units. Simply put, outside cool air is passed through water, which evaporates and makes the air even cooler. On cold days (which are common in the UK), the water isn’t even needed and on hot days it can handle the strain. This type of cooling uses no refrigeration or harmful chemicals, just nature’s own air and water. In addition, the data centre operates ‘cold aisle containment’ which ensures that the hot air produced by the servers and the cooled air are kept separate, meaning the cooling process isn’t affected and energy isn’t wasted.
That’s not all. We have even more to look forward to; During 2024-2025 the data centre has plans to add its own roof mounted solar panel array, providing additional on-site renewable energy. We will keep you updated on this as it happens. Find out more about the data centre that houses Green Hosting.
17th Nov 2023
The authority on web hosting, HostingAdvice.com, has named Green Hosting as one of the top 10 green and eco-friendly hosting providers in 2023.
HostingAdvice have been providing reviews, guides, advice and information about web hosting since 2014. Their hosting and programming experts have over 50 years of combined web hosting knowledge.
It was great to hear we had been added to the HostingAdvice top 10 list as they had clearly recognised not only our commitment to powering ours and our clients’ websites with 100% renewable energy but also our uptime reliability and partnership with other ethical organisations. Additionally, as some of you may already know, our servers are housed in one of the most energy efficient data centres in the world. On top of this, we have an ethical policy which outlines the kind of work we love to support, we donate a percentage of our Green Hosting sales to the clean energy project Renewable World and we provide voluntary web and hosting services to local social and environmental organisations. Our clients love our great customer service and we love to champion their work too. So, we agree with HostingAdvice that our Green Hosting stands out from the crowd.
Thank you HostingAdvice!
24th May 2023
The League Against Cruel Sports have been working to protect animals from hunting, shooting and animal fighting since 1927. They have lead and facilitated some amazing achievements in those decades and continue to do so.
Here at Make Hay and Green Hosting, with our 18 years of business, we are mere youngsters in comparison. However, from the day we founded our company we decided that we would not provide services for any organisation or individual that uses animals in sports and certainly never blood sports. This is still included in our ethical policy today.
We are now delighted to have joined with The League Against Cruel Sports and many other ethical businesses to pledge that we do not and will not promote, support or enable blood sports. Together we can send a clear message that these vile practices are not wanted and should not be a part of our society.
Visit the Business Without Blood Sports Pledge page to find out more and to sign up.
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