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They are carbon neutral through purchasing renewable energy certificates.

http://www.acornhost.com/

A web hosting provider... They offer a pretty darn extensive list of domain registration features such as being able to facilitate domain registration in any of these top level domains: ".com .net .info .org .mobi .biz .us .asia .in .ws .at .be .cc .cn .de .fm .gs .jobs .jp .ms .nu .nz .tc .tw .uk .vg .tv .ca".

They offer several forms of shared hosting plans. The feature set is comprehensive and they have a system of easy install for a wide variety of web applications.

They offer hosting of Microsoft Outlook email services.

A web hosting provider offering a pretty comprehensive shared hosting plan at a good price. They offer unlimited data storage, unlimited bandwidth, unlimited domains, hmmm, it always gives me a pause to wonder whether they can actually provide all that 'unlimited'.

They allow ffmpeg, meaning you can do video conversions on the server and do video hosting.

dreamhost.com - Is an almost full service web hosting provider. Their core competency is shared hosting but they do offer a dedicated hosting arrangement, but prevent you from having root access to your "dedicated" server.

They offer what they call a "private server" which offers some dedicated resources but is not quite a VPS.

I use Dreamhost for this site (and a couple others) plus because they offer tremendous data storage limits, my Dreamhost account serves as an offsite backup of my personal files.

http://www.ecologicalhosting.com/ -- Offers a decent array of hosting plans.

http://www.ecologicalhosting.com/hosting -- Their data center is completely powered directly by solar energy. The data center is in southern California and is, I believe, hosting some of the other green web hosting providers.

They offer comprehensive shared web hosting in a very affordable package.

They purchase green tags certified by Green-e, the nation's leading independent green power certification and verifications programs for renewable energy. They utilize other initiatives to reduce other environmental impacts.

A web hosting provider with a comprehensive range of plans (from shared hosting to dedicated servers) and is also carbon neutral.

On shared hosting they make a clear distinction of how many customers are hosted per server for every. Most hosting providers don't do this, so it's a refreshing bit of transparency. Their "semi-dedicated plan" likewise has a clearly specified number of customers per server.

They offer a complete set of web hosting features while not explicitly saying what those features are. There is said to be no limits to the number of websites hosted, disk usage, bandwidth etc.

They only offer shared hosting services.

An interesting feature is their "cloud network". This seems to mean automatic scaling based on traffic load.

They achieve carbon neutral status through purchasing energy credits and tree planting initiatives.

They offer a reasonably priced comprehensive shared hosting plan. This includes unlimited pretty much everything like disk space, bandwidth, etc.

They buy "green tags", a form of renewable energy certificates, from a wind energy provider.

I suppose by being 'greenest host' they are the most green of web hosting operations? Well, rather than rely on green power credits their hosting facilities are in a solar powered data center just north of San Diego. As they say, rather than create the dirty power in the first place and do something else to offset the dirty power, they simply use green power.

http://www.greenesthost.com/

They offer a comprehensive set of web hosting features at reasonable prices. Their FREE Site Builder will allow you to easily create a professional looking website within minutes! And they offer a large number of prebuilt site templates you can use. Each hosting account comes with cPanel to manage the account, and using the Fantastico system you can install any of 55 different web applications with a couple clicks of the mouse.

They are a web hosting provider who seems to specialize in virtual private servers (VPS), in that VPS's are the only plans they offer. The plans are reasonably priced and have high memory and bandwidth allotments. With extra charges you can increase those allotments as far as desired.

Their network connectivity goes directly to the major Internet backbone providers.

They offer what appears to be excellent management facilities. You can easily create new server images, add or delete servers, do operating system installs, set up domain name services (DNS) and more.

Lightbeing Creations is a web hosting provider and web design shop based in the UK.

They offer shared hosting plans on Linux and Windows servers, as well as dedicated servers.

The shared hosting plan offers the essential features that allows installing typical PHP web applications like Wordpress or Drupal.

NEXCESS.NET is 'green' through purchasing green power certificates, however they have a stated goal of being 100% renewable energy powered by December 2009, and that today they are 25% renewable energy powered.

http://www.nexcess.net/company/green-web-hosting.php

Their service names are: Nexcess, for shared hosting, MaxVPS for virtual private servers, and EliteRAX for dedicated hosting.

The services provided are very comprehensive. The shared hosting accounts even include "Java Compiler" and "Tomcat" support meaning one could run servlets on shared hosting.

They're a web hosting provider but it's really hard to figure that out. Their front page has a discussion of making the world a better place and the search for ideal solutions etc, but it's hard to get at what they're talking about.

They have a page listing types of green web hosting. They say "100% carbon neutral". But I'm not sure it's a good idea to work with them unless they make it clear what they're doing.

They are a web hosting company that specializes in virtual private servers. This means you would receive what looks like an entire server dedicated to your use, but it is really a slice of an existing server. This allows the hosting company to still implant multiple accounts per physical server while giving you full control over your hosting service.

They offer both Windows and Linux based virtual private servers.

They offer a fairly comprehensive set of shared hosting features. However the technology is last generation such as PHP 4.2.x when PHP 5.x is the current release. Also the disk and bandwidth allotments are skimpy.

They purchase renewable energy credits to become green.

Unlike many 'green' web hosting providers, Solar Energy Host is located in the "only" solar powered data center in the U.S.

http://www.solarenergyhost.com/

They offer virtual private server web hosting, with an ecologically sensitive approach. The name of the service includes 'Solar' which would lead you to think it's a solar powered business. But this appears to not be the case. They have chosen components and other business practices which have low power requirements. They support green causes. But they aren't either buying carbon credits, renewable power credits, or directly using renewable energy.

They offer shared hosting accounts with a comprehensive set of features. Unlimited disk space, unlimited data transfer, unlimited number of domains, etc.

They claim to be 100% carbon neutral. They use efficient servers which decrease energy requirements. They participate in tree planting campaigns. They assist their customers in buying renewable energy credits.

A web hosting provider offering a fairly comprehensive set of features in shared hosting plans. Their servers run Linux, offer PHP with Zend optimization, and a useful set of available features.

They also offer managed dedicated servers.

Their claim to being 'carbon neutral' is through purchasing Green-E Certified power. They show the certificate on their site, and they buy credits equal to 40,000 kwh of power per year. They also note that until we have properly recyclable computers there will be no such thing as truly sustainable web hosting.

They offer comprehensive shared hosting plans. They also offer hands on assistance with web design and other webmaster services. Finally the pricing is reasonable.

They claim to be green, and back up this claim with purchases of renewable energy credits from companies that produce wind power.

They are 'green' through having conducted an audit of all their hosting facilities and purchasing green energy tags to match their energy use. They also have a commitment to social responsibility, social change, use of telecommuting, use of open source software, etc. They offer free web hosting to US based, registered non-profit progressive organizations whose primary focus is environment, grass roots democracy, peace, social/economic justice or human rights.

Ultra Hosting provides various levels of virtual servers, dedicated servers and server colocation. They do not provide shared web hosting. They claim to offer high reliability starting with a large staff of technicians, good management processes, continuous improvement, etc.

They offer management services in which their staff takes some of the load of managing the server. This includes monitoring, rebooting as necessary, security hardening, software install, etc. All this depends on the level of service you buy.

Offers a comprehensive range of shared hosting, and colocation plans. Xmission has been in the web hosting business since 1993. It appears their service offers essentially everything you could want.

They purchase renewable power through Rocky Mountain Power's Blue Sky program.