Good Avocado Host Review

By Russell Hancock

In the modern world we're always being told to be more eco-friendly. We recycle more, buy energy efficient processors, power saving light bulbs, wash our clothes at a lower temperature so the next logical step online is to want an eco-friendly webhost! Now I can't say this is something I've ever thought I'd want in the past but the way I see it, if an eco-friendly host offers me the same service as a normal host and at the same time helps the environment, then I lose nothing by choosing them.

This is the logic that led me to try out Good Avocado. The folks over at Good Avocado promise that all of their hosting is completely carbon neutral, through the use of wind and solar power. What's more - they say they'll plant a tree every time an account is opened. As I said before, that isn't enough to sell a hosting company to me, they have to provide on features, price and customer support too.

In regards to the first, Good Avocado has a great set of features, the most impressive of which is their cluster technology. This allows the load of a high traffic site to be shared across many servers, allowing for a much improved response time. This is coupled with fantastic uptime - with no outages in my experiences with them. All plans are fully customisable and scalable thanks to the same technology meaning that the hosting can adapt as your circumstances adapt. Their monthly transfer offering is unlimited, which is certainly something of a rarity today. What is more, this is matched by unlimited disk space as well as MySQL databases. Just to make this feature set even more extraordinary - Good Avocado claims you can host an unlimited number of sites too.

Whilst this all seems fantastic, it does lead to big fears of overselling and I'm not sure if you push them on the unlimited nature of their hosting, how they will respond.

As for the price, Good Avocado certainly is not the cheapest at $4.95 for their basic solution. On top of that, they don't offer many features in terms of e-commerce so you would have to buy that individually which will simply push price up.

Finally, customer support really lets Good Avocado down, there is no email or even phone support and you're left to rely upon the knowledge base and support tickets.

So is the world ready for eco-friendly hosting? Well maybe but not with Good Avocado. However, if you are looking for an environmentally friendly hosting solution they do come through.

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