How reliable is "gone green" Web hosting?...

...I've heard HostGator has gone green, that their servers are all wind-powered. Are there servers still reliable, or are there chances their servers will clunk out?
Take your spam and shove it where the sun doesn't shine, and I don't mean the closet.

"Hi Anonymous,

Only their shared and reseller servers go green, except dedicated server... for now.

By saying "wind powered", just because there isn't wind blowing doesn't mean the server will be down. No. If that's the case, as one of the top 10 web hosts in the world, wouldn't they be digging their own grave?

Basically, Host Gator buys the certified renewable energy credits (RECs) from a renewable energy generating company to power their servers. You can learn more about its green hosting here (very interesting info):

=> http://tinyurl.com/host-gator-go-green

In a nutshell, there's always power generated for all their green servers, just as before. A crazy climate change will not affect the reliability at all.

In other words, if their servers' reliability used to be 99.9% before they go green, it'll still be 99.9% after going green.

Hope that answers your doubts. Cheers ;)

Soon Chai

P.S. You may want to further check with their support team via their 24/7 live chat at the top right corner of the page."
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