An image from inside the GreenGeeks data center in Chicago
(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Eco-conscious web hosting provider GreenGeeks (www.greengeeks.com) announced on Wednesday that it has launched a green VPS hosting solution.
GreenGeeks says its approach to providing “green” hosting involves the purchase of wind energy credits at a rate of three times the amount of energy used by its servers.
The new VPS plans range from $19.95 per month with 384MB of RAM to $99.95 per month with 2048MB of RAM.
“We’ve seen an increase in our customers asking for VPS-related products and are very happy to be able to provide it to them,” chief executive officer of GreenGeeks Trey Gardner said, quoted in the press release.
Gardner is also the CEO of cloud hosting service SiteCloud. Earlier this week, the WHIR published an email Q&A with Gardner on the evolving infrastructure behind the SiteCloud service. In the interview, Gardner discusses some of the overlap between the GreenGeeks and SiteCloud services, and how customers of one might benefit from the other.
Specializing in cPanel/WHM instances running on CentOS 5, GreenGeeks plans enable customers to choose from a self-managed or fully managed service. The plans include a free eNom wholesale domain reseller account, billing system and free site migrations.
“We’ve been working very hard for the last 6 months to ensure a very smooth integration of the service into our existing product line,” Gardner said.
Hosted on the latest enterprise hardware featuring Dual Quad Core Xeon Nehalam processors, the plans also have a minimum of 24GB DDR3 RAM, RAID-10 storage arrays and OpenVZ virtualization technology.
Users will have a VPS control panel, which provides free OS-reinstalls and reboots.
In February, GreenGeeks was chosen as the official web hosting company in Drupal for Dummies.
Green technology continues to be a driving factor in parts of the hosting business. On Tuesday, the WHIR reported that web host Codero had reached its target of using 100 percent renewable energy to power its operations.
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Nicole Henderson writes full-time for the Web Host Industry Review where she covers daily news and features online, as well as in print. She has a bachelor of journalism from Ryerson University in Toronto, and has been writing for the WHIR since September 2010. You can find her on Twitter @NicoleHenderson.
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