Is my RunCabin website hosted on renewable energy?

Yes. Since July 2026, every site RunCabin hosts - done-for-you small-business sites, AI-built sites, and agent-deployed sites - runs in Hetzner's Falkenstein datacenter park in Germany, which runs on 100% renewable electricity from certified hydropower.

Does green hosting cost extra at RunCabin?

No. There is no green tier and no surcharge. Green hosting is simply where every RunCabin site lives now, at the same flat prices as before.

What is a green datacenter?

A datacenter whose electricity comes from renewable sources and that is built to waste as little of it as possible. The facility RunCabin uses runs on certified hydropower and is air-cooled, with a power usage effectiveness of 1.10 to 1.16 - meaning very little electricity is spent on anything other than the servers themselves. A typical datacenter runs around 1.5.

Is RunCabin carbon neutral?

No, and we do not claim to be. Servers use real electricity, and our datacenter operator says plainly that it is not fully climate neutral yet. What is true: the electricity powering your site is 100% renewable, certified hydropower. We would rather state that accurately than buy offsets and call it zero.

RunCabin Blog · Company news

Your website now runs in a green datacenter

July 17, 2026 · 5 min read

In July 2026 we moved every site RunCabin hosts to a green datacenter - Hetzner's Falkenstein datacenter park in Germany, which runs on 100% renewable electricity from certified hydropower. If we host your site, it is running on renewable energy right now. It cost you nothing, you did not have to do anything, and your prices did not change.

That is the whole announcement. The rest of this post is the part we think matters more: what "green datacenter" actually means in concrete terms, why we did it, and - because this industry is drowning in vague eco-claims - exactly which claims we will not be making.

What actually happened

A website is a real machine in a real building somewhere, using real electricity around the clock. Until this month, RunCabin's machines lived in a US datacenter. Over the first half of July we moved the whole fleet - the platform itself and every customer site on it - to Hetzner's datacenter park in Falkenstein, Germany.

Hetzner is one of Europe's largest hosting companies, and its German datacenters have run on green electricity since 2008. The power is 100% renewable, backed by certified hydropower. So the electricity that serves your pages, delivers your quote-form leads, and keeps your site up at 3am now comes from moving water instead of a fossil-fuel grid mix.

What "green datacenter" means, concretely

Two things, and both are measurable rather than mood-based:

Where the electricity comes from. The Falkenstein facility runs on 100% renewable electricity - hydropower, with certificates behind the claim, not a marketing page. That has been true of Hetzner's German sites since 2008; this is not a program they bolted on last quarter.
How little of it gets wasted. Datacenters are graded on power usage effectiveness, or PUE: for every unit of electricity that reaches a server, how much extra is burned on cooling and overhead. A perfect score is 1.0, and a typical datacenter runs around 1.5. Falkenstein runs between 1.10 and 1.16, cooled by air, with no water cooling at all.

In plain words: the building your website lives in runs on renewable power and wastes very little of it.

What we will not claim

Here is the part most hosting announcements skip. This does not make your website "carbon neutral," and we will not be putting that badge anywhere. Servers are manufactured, buildings are built, networks run - all of that has a footprint, and offsets that round it down to zero are mostly an accounting trick. Hetzner itself says plainly that it is not fully climate neutral yet, and we respect that honesty more than a green leaf logo with an asterisk.

What we can say accurately, and all we will say: the electricity powering your site is 100% renewable. That is a real, verifiable thing - and it is a better claim than most of the internet can make.

Why we did it

Honestly? Because it was nearly free to do the right thing, and we needed to pick a datacenter anyway.

We were already moving infrastructure this summer. When you are choosing where your fleet lives for the next many years, the shortlist comes down to reliability, performance, and price - and Hetzner was winning on those terms on its own. That the winning option also happened to run on certified hydropower turned a good infrastructure decision into an easy one. We would love to tell you a grander story, but the truth is more useful: when the green option is also the well-run option, there is no reason left not to take it. More of the internet should get to say that, and increasingly it can.

What this means for your business

If you run a local business on a RunCabin site, here is a small thing you now own: your website runs on 100% renewable energy, and you can tell your customers that.

It will not close a job on its own - your reviews and your work do that. But plenty of homeowners quietly prefer the painter or cleaner who seems to run things thoughtfully, and "even our website runs on renewable energy" is a nice, true sentence to have on an about page. If you want it added to your site, ask the AI - editing is included, like always.

And if you are the type who reads hosting specs (we see you, fellow nerds): Falkenstein DE, 100% renewable certified hydropower, PUE 1.10-1.16, air-cooled, EMAS-certified operator. The full spec sheet lives on our homepage under "for nerds."

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