Green carbon-neutral hosting. Clean planet, clean conscience.

Here at WebHolism we like to give you as much as we can for your hard earned pennies.

So for just £50 a year, you'll get:

• Green carbon-neutral hosting of your website
• Up to 10 email account creations per year (we can extend this if you need to)
• Email account alteration
• Creation of auto-forwarders (for redirecting emails if someone leaves or goes on holiday, etc)
• Helpful and friendly WebHolism Support, should you have any problems with site down-time, access issues or email accounts filling up to capacity, etc).
• Spam filters

We also offer a 30 day "cooling off period", so that you can always change your mind in the first month for a full refund with no penalty or hard feelings.

So what do we mean when we talk about hosting a website?

Simply put, a website is a 2 part invention; there is the domain name (URL), which you may as well consider the address of a website, such as 10 Downing Street. Then there is the site hosting, which is the physical building that resides at that location. So for example, if the house at 10 Downing Street were to be taken apart (not a process that we would recommend) 10 Downing Street as a location would exist, but nothing would be there.

Make sense? Assuming that's a yes, let's carry on. So continuing with our analogy, you may have bought an address, but what you really want is an all-singing, all-dancing, eco-friendly building that looks great, AND has minimum environmental impact (those lights that switch off if you are not in the room, effective insulation of the walls and ceilings, solar powered water heating, etc). This is the point of carbon-neutral, green hosting.

As we become more technical as a species, the energy use per person increases (even though we may not realise it). Think about how much storage space is required to host all those Facebook pages, Twitter feeds, photo's on Flickr, websites, online stores and online email accounts (like gmail, hotmail and yahoo) just to mention a few examples. And the server machines that hold all that data have to be switched on and running 24 hours a day. Needless to say, it requires a mind boggling amount of enery to power the marvel that is the internet. So we say: "Why not power it with renewable energy?"

As a UK website hosting service we reduce our impact where ever we can, whilst not compromising on quality. We do this through:

• The use of efficient server hardware that has a lower electrical demand.
• Using companies like Ecotricity for our personal power needs.
• Employing recycled, second-hand computers to work on.
• Recycling/freecycling or donating to charity any items which we no longer use.
• Carbon-offsetting by donating to the Woodland Trust and other tree planting organisations.
• Consciously banking with institutions that do not fund environmentally damaging projects.

We feel that being green and doing the right thing should be the easy choice and not a sacrifice. So why not choose the green option that will greatly minimise the impact of our technical choices.

Contact us today and let us help you reduce your environmental impact as much as we can. Cutting back on your car use and eating less meat may also help a great deal, but WebHolism's website hosting services could be your start on the road of carbon-neutral living.

WebHolism is a UK Website Hosting Company.