What makes Taproot a GREEN Web Host?

The answer to that question, quite delightfully, is: lots of stuff!

• 100% Wind-Powered Hosting
• No Commuting = No Fossil Fuels!
• Offsetting Employee Footprints
• We'll Plant You a Tree!
• Get One, Give One Non-Profit Plan
• No "Greenwashing"
• Sustainable Growth
• Supporting Local Economy
• Paperless Business
• Location, Location, Location
• Greener As We Go

Taproot Hosting is proud to be based in the sustainable city of Portland Oregon and to offer affordable and 100% Green Web Hosting to each of our clients. Our staff is hands-on, accessible and different - in absolutely the best ways.

We give boutique services with mega-host prices and mega-host reliability, and we do so with our ethics (and yours!) intact. You feel good about your project, and we want you to feel good about your host, too!

What makes Taproot a GREAT Web Host?

Sure, being green is great and all, but we're not all heart:

• cPanel + 1-Click Software Installs
• Free Site Moves
• Multiple Sites with One Account
• PHP 5, Perl, Ruby On Rails
• MySQL
• Shell Access
• SSL
• POP/IMAP E-mail
• Powerful, Stable, Secure servers
• Excellent Uptime
• 24x7 Server Monitoring and tech support
• Multiple Backups (site/email/data)
• Free Wordpress install/setup
• Domain registration and hosting

Taproot does business differently, but that doesn't mean we're short on business sense! We are owned and operated by System Administrators, Web Developers and Graphic Designers.

This means our customer support is coming straight to you from the experts. With 10+ years in hosting, design and development, we are a powerful team who will make your web experience smooth and ethical. Whether you need help with a Wordpress installation or setting up your email client our 24x7 help desk is always up and ready to help you with any technichal issues.

Non Profit and Organization Sites

Using the open source systems Wordpress or Joomla/Drupal and CiviCRM, you can have a site that will allow you to manage all your members, online donations, email lists, events, and web site content. We set it all up as part of the hosting package allowing you to focus on your organization's cause. Read more....

Why Choose Green Web Hosting?

According to a recent study by McKinsey & Company, data centers are slated to overtake the aviation industry by the year 2020 as a top greenhouse gas pollutant. 1 single medium-sized webserver can emit as much CO2 over the course of a year as an SUV that gets 15mpg.

The best way to have a healthy, green web presence is to use a green web host that is directly powered by clean energy. Taproot is one such host, and this effectively erases the carbon footprint of our web servers, making carbon-neutral hosting possible, without the greenwashing of carbon offset certificates.

Here at Taproot, we're all about giving you ways to give back -- So for the next year, for every pre-paid "The Works" sign-up we get, we will give a Non-Profit organization a full FREE year of web hosting!