Recently I came across a mention of green hosting - a concept that is becoming more and more popular as more people become concerned with environmental issues. The key idea in green hosting is in reducing the negative impact on the environment.

One such host I am aware of is ThinkHost. Their commitment to being green is expressed through their usage of renewable energy only - the energy of the wind and solar energy. Also, for each new customer that opens a hosting account with this host, a tree is planted! What a great way to become Earth friendly by just geting a hosting plan!

OK this is all great but since we’re talking about a web host, let’s see what features are offered with the plan:

• 100 Gb of server space
• 1000 Gb of bandwidth!
• Unlimited MySQL databases
• You can host unlimited domains
• FTP access
• Secure Telnet (SSH) access
• Unlimited POP3 e-mail accounts
• PHP 5 + Perl 5
• FreeBSD Unix/Linux Apache server
• mod_rewrite and other modules
• Ruby on Rails support
• FastCGI support
• Python support
• Full .htaccess capabilities

- and much more, all of this for only $7.95 per month and, what even more surprising, with a 120-day money back guarantee! I don’t remember when I have last seen a host offering more than 30-day moneyback guarantee so this sounds like they are really confident about their hosting’s quality!

Do you know of many non-”green” hosts who can match all of the above? Add to this the ability to automatically install all kinds of popular CMS and other scripts like Joomla, WordPress, ecommerse applications, and so on… Are you persuaded yet? - If so go get it, and while at it request a coupon for a discount they currently offer and get your hosting account for even less money - and remember a tree will be planted for you as well!