Business and Green (Earth Friendly) Hosting
Some of my clients have a variety of hosting plans they’ve chosen prior to contacting me, so I have the opportunity to get in to the administration section of these plans and see how they work. I like what I’ve seen, so I’ve added some information about some of the plans I’ve run accross. I use BlueHost because I was with them before I went green aware, they are really reliable, and because it takes a long, long, long time to move database driven sites to them — or anywhere else for that matter. I just don’t have the time these days. (I have many other sites besides this one). Plus BlueHost has toll free support and I like them as people. They’ve had growing pains, but snap back really fast. I also have hosting with DreamHost, I like their plans too and the folks there, but not for database sites (too slow). I hope they get better.
ThinkHost
Excerpt from their site: All our hosting plans are 100% wind/solar powered. Added to that, most of our team members "telecommute" - saving thousands of gallons of fuel annually that would have otherwise been consumed in commuting to a traditional work environment. We use very little in terms of paper and encourage the use of notebook computers by our team to conserve electricity. We recently also implemented a tree planting initiative - we plant a tree for every new client! Learn more in our social responsibility statement and social change section.
- 100 GB Disk Space
- Host Unlimited Domain Names on one account
- 1,000 GB Bandwidth
- 28-day money-back guarante
Prices
- 6 month plan - $17.95 x 6 = $107.70
- 1 year plan - $14.95 x 12 = $179.40
- 2 year plan - $7.95 x 24 = $190.80 - LIMITED OFFER SAVE $240
HostPapa
HostPapa has a solid foundation to offer a hosting solution for small-to-medium sized businesses that is reliable, easy-to-use, and customer service-oriented, all for a low cost of $5.95 a month to $7.95 a month.
- 1500 GB Disk Space
- Host Unlimited Domain Names on one account
- 1 Free Domain Name for Life
- 15,000 GB Bandwidth
- Personal Website Tools
- FREE Setup! Save $29.95!
- FREE Soholaunch site builder software
- 30-day money-back guarantee
Great quality, green hosting services. Visit HostPapa.
BlueHost
BlueHost’s Web Hosting plans include all the features you’ll ever need at the best possible price! Plus they have fantastic support, either by phone, chat, or email.
- Host Unlimited Domains on 1 Account
- 24/7 Superb / Responsive Sales / Support
- 2 500 POP/Imap Email Accounts
- SSH (Secure Shell)
You already have a domain name or web site?
They’ll help you setup your domain. Being a cPanel host, they make your life easy! Check it out!
DreamHost
Top Ten Reasons for DreamHost:
- No risk: DreamHost has the industry’s longest and most complete guarantee: a 97 days refund. If you sign up for a plan and you think it stinks, you can get your full purchase price (less the 9.95 domain registration, if you used that option). You’ll even get the set up fee refunded if you signed up for the month-to-month plan. So you loose nothing. In fact, if you use the ECOFRIENDLY10 coupon code, you don’t even loose the domain registration price as you get $10.00 off with that coupon.
- Carbon Neutral: DreamHost has offset their carbon power usage with green certificates to fund alternative, earth friendly power.
- Employee Owned Cooperative: This is a progressive company and greatly helps them offer one of the best customer support teams in the Internet world. When people are treated like people and not peons, it trickles down to the customer base. (That’s NOT to be confused with trickle down economics, which means that we get pissed on! ;-))
- Massive amount of space and bandwidth: Even on the lowest price plan, DreamHost provides over 150 GB of disk space and 1600 GB bandwidth. Your disk space increases by 10 GB a month and your bandwidth increases by 1GB a month. It’s fantastic! This means can upload as many photos, music, and videos as you want without worrying about running out of space or getting over charges like the other hosting providers charge.
- Unlimited Domains on One Account: You can host as many domain names as you want with Dreamhost. So if you have mulitple businesses or would like some sites for your family or friends, you can have them under one account and only pay the one hosting fee per month. This is unreal!
- Unlimited MySQL databases: Host unlimited blogs and CMS powered websites with 1 click easy installation of popular free software like Joomla, Gallery, Calendar, Wordpress or ZenCart.
- Easy Installations: One click installation of the most popular, least buggy, open source powerful programs like ZenCart, Wordpress, Joomla, Gallery, and more!
- One Free (as in Free Beer) Domain Name: Every new account at DreamHost gets a free domain name for life. As long as you remain their customer, they will pay for that domain name ($9.95/year value) for you.
- Top 15 Hosting Company: DreamHost serves more than 500,000 domains. They are one of top 15 hosts on the Internet.
- Transparency: They are open about any server issues that are occurring and you can check out their status page anytime. ALL hosts have issues, but most deny them (they tell you that it’s your problem).
